Rep. Ernie Yarbrough: Lacking in Vocabulary

 

Alabama legislator Ernie Yarbrough has introduced HB518, a proposed law calling for women who seek and possibly receive an induced abortion to be charged with assault or murder. Here is a direct quote from Yarbrough:

“[T]o fulfill this equal protection requirement, the lives of preborn individuals must be protected with the same criminal and civil laws protecting the lives of born individuals.”

Does Yarbrough think he's God? How does he know which fetuses will be born? Pictured above are ten happily married and pregnant women, but statistics tell us at least one will lose her fetus before her second trimester due to natural causes.

Just where does this word "preborn" come from? We've found two citations. One suggests a 1962 New York Times editorial, while another mentions the novel Dune published in 1965.

No, Rep. Yarbrough, preborn isn't the same thing as unborn...even here in Alabama. 

Previously: Pre-Born or Just Unborn?

Tomorrow: He's not so hot in biology either.