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Effete Snob

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23. No

Reply to Hamlette (Reply #22)

Wed Mar 22, 2023, 05:39 PM

Mar 2023

The article uses the word "replaced" but it is not a reference to some document which originally had the word "mother" in it.

There are persons who give birth who are not "mothers". Assigning a parental word is a legal, not a medical term.

It would be particularly interesting to see the document in question, since if it was a funding grant of some kind, then it probably used the language of the institution which proposed whatever it was in the first place, and not something that was "replaced" in some original document by anyone in the administration.

Strange hill to die on.

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