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<p>The leader of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) apologized Monday night for honoring the one-year anniversary of Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s passing by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aclu-strips-gendered-language-from-ginsburg-quote-about-women-having-abortions">removing references to women</a> in a quote about women and abortion. The alteration appears to have been a bizarre attempt at making the late justice&#8217;s words more inclusive.</p>
<p>“We won’t be altering people’s quotes,” Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/us/aclu-apologizes-ginsburg-quote.html">The New York Times</a> on Monday evening. “It was a mistake among the digital team. Changing quotes is not something we ever did.”</p>
<p>Last week, the organization decided to tweet an altered version of the quote and received intense backlash for it.</p>
<p>The original quote, which the ACLU was <a href="https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1440797678388932622">fine repeating</a> on its website in the original last year — reads: “The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity. … When government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.”</p>
<p>But the ACLU digital team decided to remove the gendered language from the quote so it would read: “The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a [person’s] life, to [their] well-being and dignity… When the government controls that decision for [people], [they are] being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for [their] own choices,” reads the text of the ACLU’s tweet, which put brackets around the words they inserted.</p>
<p>Although Romero said the mistake would not happen again, he appeared to justify the alteration as well-intentioned, telling The New York Times that it “was not a mistake without a thought.&#8221; The tweet was still online as of Monday night.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">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>— ACLU (@ACLU) <a href="https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1439259891064004610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
<p>“Having spent time with Justice Ginsburg, I would like to believe that if she were alive today, she would encourage us to evolve our language to encompass a broader vision of gender, identity and sexuality,&#8221; Romero <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/opinion/rbg-aclu-abortion.html">told</a> the Times.</p>
<p>Other left-wing language changes have appeared around the topic of women as well.</p>
<p>On Monday, an editor for The Lancet, a prestigious medical journal, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-medical-journal-editor-responds-to-outrage-after-its-cover-calls-women-bodies-with-vaginas">apologized</a> to &#8220;those who were offended&#8221; by the recent issue cover, which used the phrase &#8220;bodies with vaginas.&#8221; The editor, however, also said he wanted &#8220;to emphasise that transgender health is an important dimension of modern health care, but one that remains neglected,&#8221; and encouraged people to read the full article (which did use the word &#8220;<a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01962-0/fulltext">women</a>&#8221; a handful of times).</p>
<p>And earlier this year, Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) invoked the phrase &#8220;birthing people&#8221; when talking about maternal health. She also used the phrase “menstruating person.”</p>
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