Although Dr. Kermit Gosnell is on trial in Philadelphia charged with the first-degree murder of four babies born alive during late-term abortions – what the grand jury report called killing “live, viable, moving, breathing, crying babies” – the New York Times calls the victims “viable fetuses.”

In the lead paragraph of a commentary entitled “Kermit Gosnell and Reproductive Care,” NYT Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal writes, “What does the trial of a Philadelphia doctor who is accused of performing illegal late-term abortions by inducing labor and then killing viable fetuses have to do with the debate over legal abortion?” Rosenthal uses the word “fetus” on only one other occasion in the commentary.