PA Dems ERASE “Mother” and “Woman” From State Health Code, Replaced With “Postpartum
Quote:Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s administration is quietly attempting to erase women and mothers from the Commonwealth’s health code in the name of radical gender ideology.
Buried inside a sweeping 502-page regulatory proposal from the Pennsylvania Department of Health are multiple revisions that strike the words “woman” and “mother” and replace them with dehumanizing, gender-neutral terms such as “individual” and “postpartum individual.”
The changes were first uncovered by The Daily Wire. The proposed overhaul of 28 Pa. Code Chapter 27, which governs communicable and noncommunicable diseases, was published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin on August 8.
The Shapiro administration apparently believes the words “mother” and “woman” are now too offensive for Pennsylvania’s official health regulations.
You simply cannot make this up. Under the proposed changes:
“Pregnant woman” becomes “pregnant individual.”
“Mother of a newborn” becomes “postpartum individual.”
“Mother of stillborn” is replaced with “case of stillbirth,” while references to the mother are changed to “postpartum individual.”
A “mother’s medical record” becomes a “postpartum individual’s medical record.”
Language referring to medical professionals attending women during childbirth is rewritten to say they attend “individuals.”
The proposal even changes the health code’s definition of perinatal HIV exposure. The existing language referring to a “pregnant woman or mother of a newborn” would be replaced with “a pregnant or postpartum individual.”
In another section governing syphilis testing following a stillbirth, the word “mother” is repeatedly crossed out and replaced with “postpartum individual.”
This is not merely an effort to simplify outdated legal language. The proposal deliberately removes sex-specific terms from regulations dealing exclusively with pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care, biological realities unique to women.
Pennsylvania Republican State Senator Michele Brooks reportedly blasted the changes, pointing out that the Department of Health managed to inject radical gender language into hundreds of pages of new government mandates.
Women become pregnant. Mothers give birth. No amount of bureaucratic wordplay from the Shapiro administration can change those basic biological facts.
But this is what the radical left does. First, it demands that Americans accept absurd terminology. Then it embeds that terminology into government regulations, schools, hospitals, and official records. Finally, it treats anyone who refuses to participate in the fantasy as a bigot.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that New York Democrats passed legislation replacing “mother” and “father” with “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent”.
Now Shapiro’s Pennsylvania is following the same disturbing playbook.
The proposed Pennsylvania regulations are not yet final. According to the Independent Regulatory Review Commission, the proposal was formally received on June 4, published on August 8, and remains open for public comment through September 21, 2026.
The broader proposal updates disease-reporting requirements and other public-health provisions. Yet somewhere inside that massive regulatory rewrite, Shapiro’s health officials decided it was necessary to scrub “woman” and “mother” from provisions specifically addressing pregnancy and childbirth.
That decision was ideological, not medical.
Mothers are not “postpartum individuals.” Pregnant women are not faceless “individuals.”
This is not inclusion. It is the deliberate erasure of women, motherhood, and biological reality by a Democrat administration captured by the most radical elements of the gender-identity movement.
RE: PA Dems ERASE “Mother” and “Woman” From State Health Code, Replaced With “Postpartum
(08-28-2026 01:21 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote: The Dem’s excel at Orwellian torturing of words and phrases to shape perception and advance their agenda. It must be stopped.
Trump’s renaming of gulfs and lakes annoy me and I wish he would not do it, but at least he is on the offensive.
True.
His problem is that he's being misadvised and is surrounded by people who he wants to kiss up to him.
RE: PA Dems ERASE “Mother” and “Woman” From State Health Code, Replaced With “Postpartum
Well, good.
Another chess piece off the board.
Shapiro likely had no shot in '28 as it is/was, cause of the antisemitic rulers of the dim party, but this kind of ish should keep him topped out as a Governor as his high point.
Guess The Crazy has knee-pads to count on in '28.
Trump will be pretty tough to beat, even then tho.
RE: PA Dems ERASE “Mother” and “Woman” From State Health Code, Replaced With “Postpartum
(08-28-2026 03:22 PM)JMUDunk Wrote: Well, good.
Another chess piece off the board.
Shapiro likely had no shot in '28 as it is/was, cause of the antisemitic rulers of the dim party, but this kind of ish should keep him topped out as a Governor as his high point.
Guess The Crazy has knee-pads to count on in '28.
Trump will be pretty tough to beat, even then tho.
The Democrats are going to be forced to put up AOC for installation.
The DSA controls that party now.
Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom have no shot of winning.
RE: PA Dems ERASE “Mother” and “Woman” From State Health Code, Replaced With “Postpartum
(08-28-2026 03:25 PM)BirdHawkEagle Wrote:
(08-28-2026 03:22 PM)JMUDunk Wrote: Well, good.
Another chess piece off the board.
Shapiro likely had no shot in '28 as it is/was, cause of the antisemitic rulers of the dim party, but this kind of ish should keep him topped out as a Governor as his high point.
Guess The Crazy has knee-pads to count on in '28.
Trump will be pretty tough to beat, even then tho.
The Democrats are going to be forced to put up AOC for installation.
The DSA controls that party now.
Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom have no shot of winning.
Please run AOC in '28. Then we'll see exactly how popular socialism really is here.
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RE: PA Dems ERASE “Mother” and “Woman” From State Health Code, Replaced With “Postpartum
(08-29-2026 05:53 AM)TripleA Wrote:
(08-28-2026 03:25 PM)BirdHawkEagle Wrote:
(08-28-2026 03:22 PM)JMUDunk Wrote: Well, good.
Another chess piece off the board.
Shapiro likely had no shot in '28 as it is/was, cause of the antisemitic rulers of the dim party, but this kind of ish should keep him topped out as a Governor as his high point.
Guess The Crazy has knee-pads to count on in '28.
Trump will be pretty tough to beat, even then tho.
The Democrats are going to be forced to put up AOC for installation.
The DSA controls that party now.
Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom have no shot of winning.
Please run AOC in '28. Then we'll see exactly how popular socialism really is here.
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