Citations:fetus fetishist

Noun: "(derogatory) one who supports fetal rights; a pro-lifer"

 * 1972 — Laurie Johnston, "Respect Life Week Stresses the Unborn", The New York Times, 3 October 1972:
 * "Defeat the fetus fetishists" and "I am more important than a fetus" were among the placards carried by nearly 100 women
 * 1975 — The New Woman's Survival Sourcebook (ed. Kirsten Grimstad & Susan Rennie), Alfred A. Knopf (1975), ISBN 0394730356, page 203:
 * In fact, ERA [Equal Rights Amendment] opponents and fetus fetishists are mostly the same folks, which has lead feminists to speculate that anti-ERA forces are fronts for lobbies that will fight for ratification of the fetus amendment if it ever gets out of Congress.
 * 1976 — Florynce Kennedy, Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times, Prentice-Hall (1976), ISBN 9780131523630, page 12:
 * Cupcakes, anti-ERA Sellout Sals, and Female Fetus Fetishists accuse feminists and Black protesters of being pro-Communists, but Master-baiter Media people played wise monkey when Smiling Whitey Ford made charitable wheat deals with the U.S.S.R.
 * 1981 — "Rally Held in Seattle", Spokane Daily Chronicle, 9 March 1981:
 * Women must be prepared to battle "fetus fetishists and the people that would deny us our rights," said speakers at a rally of more than 200 people celebrating International Women's Day yesterday.
 * 1983 — Peter Krefet, The Unaborted Socrates: A Dramatic Debate on the the Issues Surrounding Abortion, InterVarsity Press (1983), ISBN 9780877848103, page 40:
 * Herrod: The fetus, the fetus, always this concern for the fetus. You're a fetus fetishist — a fetus-ist.
 * 1988 — "TV opponents take gloves off following debate on abortions", Toronto Star, 10 February 1988:
 * As Campbell announced he supported life, Morgentaler cut him off and shouted, "I'm a pro-choicer and a pro-lifer. You are not a pro-lifer; you are a fetus fetishist."
 * 1992 — Ellen Spiro, "A Camcordist's Manifesto", REALLIFE Magazine, No. 21/22, Spring 1992:
 * One WHAM! video activist, Julie Clark, was documenting an Operation "Rescue" health clinic blockade/WHAM! Clinic Defense and was inadvertently arrested. She was thrown in jail with a pack of fetus fetishists singing religious songs off-key in their cells
 * 2005 — Jack McCarthy, "Horowitz Comes to Tallahassee", CounterPunch, 13 April 2005:
 * New ringleader Horowitz replaces the recently departed fetus fetishist Randall Terry of Operation Rescue fame who held the Florida legislature and Jeb Bush virtual hostage for several weeks.
 * 2008 — Fern Hill, "Fetus Fetishists: Bill C-543 'Unclear'", Birth Pangs (blog), 16 May 2008:
 * It [Bill C-543] simply adds pregnancy as an aggravating circumstance so that judges can sentence more harshly, presumably thus creating an extra deterrent to potential pregnant-woman-abusers?!?!
 * Well, gee, isn’t that what the fetus fetishists would-be pregnant-women-protectors wanted to accomplish with Ken Epp's Bill C-484, aka The Kicking Abortion's Ass Bill?
 * 2009 — Antonia Zerbisias, "Crosses to bear", Broadsides (Toronto Star blog), 11 March 2009:
 * Thank you Dr. Fetus Fetishist, who is intimately acquainted with the small physique and well-being of this child -- and knows so much better than her mother, Brazilian health officers and medical practitioners on the spot.