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Hochul must halt New York’s ‘motherhood’ erasure — and step up for families

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A last-minute vote in Albany this month took New York one step closer to achieving the left’s long-cherished goal: vaporizing the nuclear family.

Does Gov. Kathy Hochul have enough spine to stop it?

The bill, S.9316, will erase the words “mother” and “father” from key sections of state law — and replace them with the coldly clinical “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent.”

This isn’t modernization, but cultural vandalism dressed up as inclusivity.

True, “mother” and “father” are not neutral terms.

Nor are they mere biological functions. 

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They define roles based on biology, love, sacrifice, unique bonds and millennia of human experience.

That reality — a mother’s pregnancy and nurturing; a father’s paternity and providing — gives each parent irreplaceable significance in a child’s life.

Reducing them to the legislature’s hollow, sterile terms intentionally diminishes and demeans them.

Adoptive or step- mothers and fathers who provide vital love and stability, regardless of gestation, are equally........

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