Have you ever uttered the bad word that starts with “mother”? I mean the one that ends with “mother.”

New York City Health Department’s chief medical officer recently did that very thing.

Curiously, she only employed the term for dilatable individuals of the black and Puerto Rican persuasion.

In a tweet promoting New York’s “birth equity” initiative aimed at providing midwives and doulas to those eating for (at least) two, Dr. Michelle E. Morse wrote thusly:

The urgency of this moment is clear. Mortality rates of birthing people are too high, and babies born to Black and Puerto Rican mothers in this city are three times more likely to die in their first year of life than babies born to non-Hispanic White birthing people.

The tweet sparked outrage — why were only white life-givers labeled “birthing people”?

“Unbelievably hateful words,” an online user opined. “Michelle Morse…is dehumanizing white mothers. Her words are those of a bully. I am shocked… and yes, I am a white mother, NYC mother these days, and definitely not a birthing vessel without an identity. Shameful, NYCHealth.”

Another analyzer announced, “New York City Department of Health first chief medical officer Michelle Morse has proclaimed that only nonwhite women can be ‘mothers;’ white women can only be ‘birthing persons.’ More SCIENTIFIC FRAUD.”

She was even called “ethically unfit to practice medicine” and accused of “racism and hate speech.”

The doctor’s post wasn’t completely unprecedented; the Department of Health is no stranger to separation by pigment.

The New York Post reports:

The DOH last year said a patient’s race should be considered when distributing certain COVID-19 treatments because “longstanding systemic health and social inequities” may increase the risk of getting sick or dying from the virus. But Harvard epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff told The Post that the higher death rate among minorities in New York was not biological…

And Dr. Michelle’s an established fan of sorting by shade — in a 2021 article, she propped a “proactively antiracist agenda for medicine.”

For those in need of one, here’s UCLA Law Professor Kimberle Crenshaw’s “antiracist” explainer:

“Antiracism is the active dismantling of systems, privileges, and everyday practices that reinforce and normalize the contemporary dimensions of white dominance.”

More from the Post on the 2021 piece:

[Dr. Michelle and Dr. Bram Wispelwey], in one example, said the hospital’s black and Latino heart failure patients should be given preferential admission to a speciality cardiac unit as a “corrective” measure to a practice that for years had them more likely go to (the) general ward.

Back to birthing people and the “M” word, a DOH spokesperson lamented Dr. Michelle’s oversight. “We apologize for inadvertently gendering black and Puerto Rican birthing people,” they said.

So to be clear, Puerto Ricans and black people aren’t mothers, either. We’re One World — uniting all birthing people.

The world had never heard of “birthing people” until just a few relative moments ago. But the phrase has caught on fast — it’s even been used by the Biden administration.

And don’t forget Good Morning America’s PSA:

Maternity has evolved:

Midwifery magazine shares gorgeous cover celebrating trans men who give birth https://t.co/wx8umMDrUC

— PinkNews (@PinkNews) July 4, 2021

All of this has been birthed by the octomom that is wokeness.

Pardon my French.

Will we soon see an end to “Mother’s Day”? If medical science gets a hold of it, I’d say there’s a very good chance.

-ALEX

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