<p>The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is issuing an apology for a heavily edited Tweet that quoted the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on abortion and women&#8217;s equality but erased &#8220;women,&#8221; replacing the gendered term with &#8220;person.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, we lost a champion for abortion and gender equality. And on the anniversary of her death, the fight to protect abortion access is more urgent than ever,&#8221; the tweet said, referencing a quote from the late Justice&#8217;s confirmation hearings.</p>
<p>But while the tweet specifically referenced abortion in relation to &#8220;women&#8217;s rights,&#8221; the gender activists edited Ginsburg&#8217;s quotes to avoid any reference to a specific gender, instead referring to &#8220;women&#8221; as &#8220;person,&#8221; in line with the group&#8217;s position on transgender issues.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, we lost a champion for abortion and gender equality. And on the anniversary of her death, the fight to protect abortion access is more urgent than ever. <a href="https://t.co/vIKadIHouN">pic.twitter.com/vIKadIHouN</a></p>
<p>&mdash; ACLU (@ACLU) <a href="https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1439259891064004610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a [person&#8217;s] life, to [their] well-being and dignity&#8230;When the government controls that decision for [people], [they are] being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for [their] own choices,&#8221; the quote read.</p>
<p>The original quote used &#8220;women&#8217;s,&#8221; and the female-oriented pronoun, &#8220;her&#8221; &#8212; references no longer acceptable.</p>
<p>Although the progressive left should have been delighted, it turned out the late Justice receives something of a blanket forgiveness for her regressive approach to gender, and the ACLU faced a severe blowback, leading to Monday&#8217;s apology.</p>
<p>&#8220;The A.C.L.U. tweet, which was sent out Sept. 18, changed Justice Ginsburg’s words, replacing each of her references to women with &#8216;person,&#8217; &#8216;people&#8217; or a plural pronoun in brackets. Justice Ginsburg, who died last year, is a revered figure in liberal and feminist circles and directed the A.C.L.U.’s Women’s Rights Project from its founding in 1972 until she became a federal judge in 1980,&#8221; The New York Times noted.</p>
<p>“We won’t be altering people’s quotes,” Anthony Romero, the group&#8217;s executive director told the outlet. “It was a mistake among the digital team. Changing quotes is not something we ever did.”</p>
<p>Romero did try to explain himself &#8212; and the erasure of pregnant women &#8212; by telling the Times, &#8220;There are people who are pregnant and who seek abortions&#8230;who do not identify as women.&#8221;</p>
<p>“My colleagues do a fantastic job of trying to understand a reality that people who seek abortions are not only women,” he added. “That reality exists.&#8221;</p>
<p>“In today’s America,&#8221; Romero continued, “language sometimes needs to be rethought.”</p>
<p>Justice Ginsburg, though, Romero added, will be exempt from &#8220;rethinking&#8221; going forward, at least as far as her quotes are concerned. He then suggested that Ginsburg would agree with him and would &#8220;encourage&#8221; the ACLU to &#8220;evolve&#8221; its thought on the matter</p>
<p>The ACLU, Romero said, will look for more sensitive ways to try to press the idea that women are not the only ones who get pregnant and seek abortions &#8212; a statement in line with progressive thought on the subject.</p>
<p>Feminist author Michelle Goldberg, though, suggested that the ACLU may have to re-examine their approach, particularly given that Ginsburg was a feminist, and erasing a women&#8217;s role in reproduction has a deleterious effect.</p>
<p>&#8220;It’s somewhat Orwellian to rewrite historical utterances to conform to modern sensitivities,&#8221; Goldberg said. &#8220;Changing Ginsburg’s words treats what was once a core feminist insight — that women are oppressed on the basis of their reproductive capacity — as an embarrassing anachronism.&#8221;</p>

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