Even the woke City Council can’t keep its gender – Latest News
As it passes laws about being pregnant, postpartum health and lactation, the City Council is doing its best to keep away from utilizing the alarming phrase “woman.”
“I remain committed to ensuring that every birthing person, regardless of race, income, or ZIP code, has access to the quality care and support they deserve before, during, and after pregnancy,” says Councilwoman Farah Louis.
Don’t use the w-word!
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Nor the time period “m-ther,” which excludes . . . different genders who give start?
Speaker Adrienne Adams likewise sponsors a decision urging Albany to “mandate that Medicaid automatically authorize the coverage of validated blood pressure cuffs and monitors for pregnant and postpartum people.”
Pregnant “people”: Are we actually nonetheless doing this?
Women are in reality the half of the human race who’ve uteruses, carry infants to time period, give start after which breastfeed.
Not each lady has infants, however each one of the tens of billions of people alive as we speak and in ages previous was conceived, carried and born by a mom.
Even the council can’t keep the denial going constantly: It intermittently falls back on phrases comparable to “maternal health,” or “maternal mortality” as a result of nothing else actually is smart.
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Or possibly (we’ll need to test with the council’s language commisars) it’s OK if the phrase is rooted in Latin?
