ACLU is slammed for changing Ruth Bader Ginsburg quote about abortion rights to remove pronouns and replace 'woman' with 'person'
The American Civil Liberties Union has been slammed over a tweet which altered a famous quote from the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg about abortion rights, replacing the word 'woman' with 'person' and swapping female pronouns with 'they.'
'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,' the ACLU posted in a photo on Twitter on the one-year anniversary of Ginsburg's death on Saturday.
The ACLU removed the term 'woman' and altered the pronouns to be inclusive of trans and non-binary individuals who might also seek an abortion.
But critics slammed the organization for 'erasing women' from a quote by such a famous women's right advocate. 'The ACLU literally erasing women,' wrote Greg Scott, of the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom group.
Dave Weigel, of the Washington Post, wrote that changing the quote was not a good look for the ACLU. 'The pronoun wars are bad and silly but editing a Ginsburg quote to remove any reference to "women" looks so clumsy.'
Author Colin Moriarty likened the change to George Orwell's novel, 1984. 'You have become the exact type of language-bending Orwellian institution you once opposed,' he wrote about the ACLU.
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Disgusting! A poster on Reddit mocked it by applying the ACLU tactic to Sojourner Truth's famous speech.
That [person] over there says that [people] need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a [person]? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no [person] could head me! And ain’t I a [person]? I could work as much and eat as much as a [person] – when I could get it – and bear the lash as well! And ain’t I a [person]? I have borne thirteen [people], and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my [parent]’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a [person]?