It’s not mother; it’s “birthing person.” It’s not woman; it’s “menstruating person.” It’s not drug addict; it’s “a person with a substance use disorder.”
The left has made many attempts to bend both language and reality to suit their political needs and cater to a fringe of sensitive activists who are miffed by any word, phrase, or sentence that isn’t sensitive enough for their ears.
The National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union, wanted to replace “mother” with “birthing parent.” Left-wing Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts previously co-sponsored the Health Equity and Accountability Act, which referred to breastfeeding as “chestfeeding.” Similarly, in 2023, the Biden administration’s Customs and Border Protection sent an email to alert personnel to “National Breast/Chestfeeding…
