Life with potential differs from potential life

DAMIEN COOKE uses the phrase ‘potential life’ to describe the unborn (Irish Examiner, July 31). This is entirely incorrect. The correct phrase is ‘life with potential’.

People who are killed in wars or road accidents are all people whose lives had the potential to survive to old age and find fulfilment.

In fact, all of us, like the unborn, have life with potential, provided we receive adequate nourishment and that nobody does us harm.