Prenatal care only serves the health of the mother. That outrageous statement was an excuse used by a proponent of abortion to discredit a proposal being considered by the Bush administration that would call fetuses "unborn children" making them eligible for government health care.

What has happened to common sense – not even science – but just common sense?

Babies in the womb, unborn children, fetuses, whatever you wish to call them, are the direct beneficiaries of prenatal care. For abortion supporters to say anything different just continues their pattern of using deception and lies to further their cause.

Good prenatal care leads to healthier children. Who can be against that?

Apparently, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League would sacrifice healthy, low-income children so there would be no threat to legal abortion. They see the proposal to make "unborn children" eligible for services under the State Children’s Health Insurance Program an attempt to undermine Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing the killing of unborn children.

However, it’s OK to say a woman is pregnant and therefore she is eligible to receive health coverage. But it’s not OK to say that the developing fetus is an "unborn child" and he or she too is eligible for health care.

Expanding the children’s health program to cover pregnant women, as abortion supporters will propose, does the same thing as expanding the children’s health program to cover pre-born children. But it’s all a game of semantics to abortion supporters.

They cannot ignore the fact that pregnant women should have good medical care – but it has to be on their terms, ie: "to benefit the health of the mother." That’s why they told the outrageous lie that it’s only the mother who is served by prenatal care. They want to go so far as to convince the public that the unborn child is not deserving of anything, not even recognition.

Abortion proponents keep leaving out words, and facts, in an attempt to cover up what they really support.