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Hamlette

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17. sorry
Wed Mar 22, 2023, 04:58 PM
Mar 2023

The White House's 2022 fiscal year budget replaced the word mothers with birthing people in a section about public health funding, prompting ridicule Monday from President Joe Biden's conservative critics.

The Biden administration's budget includes a public health section which addresses efforts to "reduce maternal mortality rates and end race-based disparities in maternal mortality." The budget specifically addresses racial disparities between Black, American Indian/Alaska Native and other women of color. But it is the replacement of the word mother with birthing people that drew the ire of conservative think tank leaders and right-wing media members Monday following the release of Biden's budget. https://www.newsweek.com/biden-admin-replaces-mothers-birthing-people-maternal-health-guidance-1598343

President Joe Biden’s federal budget proposal in a section on infant mortality rates officially calls mothers birthing people. As does the Harvard Medical School, the National Institutes of Health and other agencies. Democrats use “birthing persons” but sometimes hedge their bets and also use “mothers.” The stress must hurt really bad. https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0621-katz-birthing-mothers-20210621-4lvc7jtpnrd37ci24oikwattc4-story.html

So, it wasn't some agency, it was Biden's budget proposal and it apparently was not withdrawn. Sorry. I was relying on what DH said who is reliable but I might not have listened that closely to his source when he first brought it up.

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birthing person Hamlette Mar 2023 #9
Link? Effete Snob Mar 2023 #11
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what? Hamlette Mar 2023 #22
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As someone posted above, this is precisely what happened in 1932. thucythucy Mar 2023 #37
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