Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s administration is quietly attempting to erase women and mothers from the Commonwealth’s health code in the name of radical gender ideology.
Buried inside a sweeping 502-page regulatory proposal from the Pennsylvania Department of Health are multiple revisions that strike the words “woman” and “mother” and replace them with dehumanizing, gender-neutral terms such as “individual” and “postpartum individual.”
The changes were first uncovered by The Daily Wire. The proposed overhaul of 28 Pa. Code Chapter 27, which governs communicable and noncommunicable diseases, was published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin on August 8.
The Shapiro administration apparently believes the words “mother” and “woman” are now too offensive for Pennsylvania’s official health regulations.
You simply cannot make this up. Under the proposed changes:
- “Pregnant woman” becomes “pregnant individual.”
- “Mother of a newborn” becomes “postpartum individual.”
- “Mother of stillborn” is replaced with “case of stillbirth,” while references to the mother are changed to “postpartum individual.”
- A “mother’s medical record” becomes a “postpartum individual’s medical record.”
- Language referring to medical professionals attending women during childbirth is rewritten to say they attend “individuals.”
Hellbound and Down 