From ThePostMillennial.com….
The New England Journal of Medicine published a report on the efficacy and risks of COVID vaccines for “pregnant persons.” In their article entitled “Preliminary Findings of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine Safety in Pregnant Persons,” the more than a dozen listed authors, all of them doctors, refer to “pregnant persons,” erasing women.
The background of the article is that “Many pregnant persons in the United States are receiving messenger RNA (mRNA) coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines, but data are limited on their safety in pregnancy.” While this is a key area of research, it makes no sense to refer to pregnant women as pregnant persons.
This is a trend in medicine, to ideologically separate the female reproductive system from women. As a result, medical journals worldwide have undertaken the practice of referring to those with female bodies who are pregnant as “pregnant people,” even though there can be no doubt in the minds of any medical professional that it is only the female body that is capable of becoming pregnant and giving birth.
Yet the New England Journal of Medicine engages in this fantasy that if they say “pregnant person” they are being inclusive of those with female reproductive systems who have become pregnant but are gender-nonconforming. What they are actually doing is excluding pregnant women, who find the language dehumanizing. Pregnant women know they are women, they know they are pregnant, and they know that they have female reproductive systems.
