BABIES: They're preborn, not unborn

Thank you for your coverage of the Right to Life march.

You spoke of them as standing up for the unborn.

I wonder if we could use a different prefix before the word "born."

I know many groups use the word "unborn," but "un" usually means opposite, or the negative of. For instance, when we describe something as "unfair."

But with a baby, a more accurate prefix would be "preborn." It's simply a question of time before they're born. In the natural course of events, a birth will take place. The baby in the womb isn't the opposite of the baby outside the womb! It's simply one stage in a sequence.

DAVID WARNICK

Coeur d'Alene