‘Mother’ Is Not A Problem To Be Solved

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There is a word spoken in every language since people first learned to speak.

Carved into stone monuments, whispered in delivery rooms. Children cry it in the dark; adults call it out on their deathbeds. The word is “mother.” And across academic papers, liberal cocktail parties, and institutional communications, a quiet but determined campaign to retire it is well underway.

What’s on offer is “gestating parent.” The father, where acknowledged at all, becomes the “non-gestating parent.” This is no longer just the language of academic papers and institutional style guides. As the Washington Times reported, the New York Legislature has passed a bill stripping the words “mother” and “father” from sections of state family law, shelving them for bloodless replacements. The stated purpose is inclusion and clinical precision. But beneath that tidy surface is something far more consequential: the systematic removal of humanity from the most human experience there is. (RELATED: Transgender Athlete Dominates Female Competition)

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George Orwell saw this coming. In “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” he invented Newspeak, the language of the totalitarian Party, built not to expand what people could express but to contract it, to make certain thoughts literally unthinkable by eliminating the words needed to think them. The........

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