{"id":1424304,"date":"2022-04-07T15:45:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T19:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424304"},"modified":"2022-04-07T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T19:45:48","slug":"dems-celebrate-confirmation-of-first-black-woman-to-supreme-court-but-liberal-womens-groups-wont-say-what-a-woman-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-celebrate-confirmation-of-first-black-woman-to-supreme-court-but-liberal-womens-groups-wont-say-what-a-woman-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Celebrate Confirmation of First Black Woman to Supreme Court. But Liberal Women\u2019s Groups Won\u2019t Say What A Woman Is."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-celebrate-confirmation-of-first-black-woman-to-supreme-court-but-liberal-womens-groups-wont-say-what-a-woman-is%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424304&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Supporters of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson are celebrating her historic confirmation as the first black woman on the Supreme Court. But like the new justice, they are tight-lipped about what it means to be a woman.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> surveyed seven major pro-Democratic women&#8217;s groups to see if they could provide a definition of the term &#8220;woman&#8221;\u2014a word that Jackson said she was unable to define during her confirmation hearings because she is &#8220;not a biologist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The National Organization for Women, the League of Women Voters, the Global Fund for Women, Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, UN Women, and the Center for Reproductive Rights all declined to provide a definition. Despite being unwilling to define the term, several of the groups immediately published statements praising Jackson&#8217;s historic confirmation as the &#8220;first Black woman&#8221; to the Supreme Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The National Organization for Women <a href=\"https:\/\/now.org\/media-center\/press-release\/now-celebrates-historic-confirmation-of-soon-to-be-justice-ketanji-brown-jackson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> it was &#8220;so proud that for the first time in 232 years, a Black woman will finally sit in one of the most powerful judicial seats in the world.&#8221; The group did not say how it determined the gender of previous judges.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood for America <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PPFA\/status\/1512134697438126094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called it<\/a> a &#8220;historic moment more than 230 years in the making\u2014Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the first ever Black woman to become a justice on the nation&#8217;s highest court!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The League of Women Voters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lwv.org\/newsroom\/press-releases\/us-senate-confirms-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that it &#8220;welcomes Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to her historic confirmation to be the next Supreme Court justice. Judge Jackson is the first Black woman to hold a seat on the high court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s groups&#8217; inability to define &#8220;woman&#8221; is a striking shift for Democrats, who just last year were applauding President Joe Biden&#8217;s pledge to appoint the first black woman to the Supreme Court. While dictionaries define &#8220;woman&#8221; as an &#8220;adult female person,&#8221; progressive activists have pushed for an expanded interpretation of the word to include other gender identities. Many Democrats have avoided defining the term, claiming it is &#8220;complicated&#8221; and riddled with &#8220;uncertainty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some Democratic leaders have even been reluctant to use the word &#8220;woman,&#8221; referring instead to &#8220;birthing people&#8221; and &#8220;menstruating persons.&#8221; Biden also took steps to avoid gendered language this week, referring to a congressman as &#8220;one of our\u2014how can I say it\u2014our congresspersons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scientists agree there is no sufficient way to clearly define what makes someone a woman, and with billions of women on the planet, there is much variation,&#8221; reported <em>USA Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Biden administration agencies\u2014including the Department of Justice, Department of Education, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development\u2014also declined to provide a definition of &#8220;woman&#8221; when asked by Fox News this week.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans, in contrast, have been more willing to provide a definition of the word, according to the <em>Huffington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) said a woman is someone with &#8220;Two X chromosomes,&#8221; while Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah) said a woman is &#8220;an adult female of the human species.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) said a woman is someone who is &#8220;biologically&#8221; female, and noted the &#8220;birds and the bees stuff\u2015it&#8217;s been a while, but I think I remember the general gist of the differences.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson are celebrating her historic confirmation as the first black woman on the Supreme Court. 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