State government offices 'are prohibited from using exclusionary, sexist language' in documents, her executive order states.
Share on email Thursday banning the use of terms like "pregnant person" and "chestfeeding" in state government documents. The terms are to be replaced with "pregnant woman" and "breastfeeding.
The order provides nine specifics such as "woman" rather than "birth-giver" and "birth mom" rather than "laboring person."how many times the now-banned terms had been reported, Sanders said she was aware of one instance and that "a number of other instances" had been reported. Spokesperson Alexa Henning later shared with Axios a single example of "pregnant person" used in a Department of Health"Some on the left will accuse us of being nitpicky, that Arkansas should just lay down and accept the cultural revolution without complaint," Sanders said at a news conference.
"I say it's the exact opposite. It's the left that decided that woman is a dirty word. It's the left that decided we needed to toss out basic biology and basic grammar along with it.
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