Does anyone know what feminist organizations like NOW think about...

[LAS14]

... the growing trend to refer to "pregnant people" rather than "pregnant women?" I'm in a total muddle myself. It seems wrong, somehow, to deny people with uteruses a collective voice for all that is associated with that situation. But it also seems wrong to insist that a person who identifies as something other be referred to as a "woman."

Does this trend water down the identify of feminism?

tia
las

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. "Pregnant people" does not erase women; it includes women who are pregnant.

NOW has increasingly used non-gendered terms when talking about pregnancy in its communications.

[blogslug]

2. NOW uses the term 7 times in this document

https://now.org/action-alert-15000-women-at-risk-and-counting/

I think they're fine with it.

[sanatanadharma]

3. The law, in its infinite wisdom, bans abortion for pregnant ...

The law, in its infinite wisdom, bans abortion for pregnant people, be they men or women.

Thus, 'they' might say, "Women are not being singled out, why are you constantly talking about women instead of people?

[JenniferJuniper]

4. They don't want trans men having access to abortion

either, because they don't really consider them to be men in the first place.