Just once I'd love a media discussion on this topic.

[Hamlette]

22. what?

you said "There was no "replacement of the word mother"". The article says the document replaced the word "mother" with "birthing person".

In some of the other articles I read to provide you with a source, the reason given by some, like Rep Bush and the article from Harvard, for using the term is to be more inclusive of trans men and non-binary people who give birth, not because of adoption. Birth mom works great for adoption.

I hate to quote a republican but I tend to agree with Ann Romney who said she is not the birthing person of 5 boys, she is their mother.

Maybe in a few decades the term birthing person will take on the same meaning as mother but then what do we call the birthing person who is not the person who raised the child? The adopting person?

I'm just not there on the need for the change and some have made the argument that these kinds of changes dehumanize women.

It's probably old dog new tricks sort of deal with me and I'll come around.

I understand that the right picks BS crap to criticize. It appears that woke might not be working for them yet but you pile on a bunch of outrages and the "not really paying all that much attention to politics" people start to sour. One example for that is Hillary Clinton. We let the right destroy her over complete BS. Not sure what we could have done but it still burns me.