{"id":1466559,"date":"2022-05-06T12:45:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T16:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466559"},"modified":"2022-05-06T12:45:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T16:45:50","slug":"ap-urges-media-to-hold-off-on-pregnant-people-in-the-wake-of-roe-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ap-urges-media-to-hold-off-on-pregnant-people-in-the-wake-of-roe-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Urges Media To Hold Off On \u2018Pregnant People\u2019 In The Wake Of Roe Leak"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fap-urges-media-to-hold-off-on-pregnant-people-in-the-wake-of-roe-leak%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=1466559&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>The Associated Press updated its style guide on pregnancy and abortion Wednesday to discourage journalists from using gender-neutral phrases when writing about abortion despite having previously encouraged the terms.<\/p>\n<p>Corporate media outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/07\/chest-feeding-mother-birthing-parent-left-war-medical-terminology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">use<\/a> phrases like \u201cpregnant people\u201d to replace \u201cpregnant women\u201d in order to be more inclusive of transgender people. As the abortion debate has heated up after a leaked draft opinion revealed the Supreme Court would likely overturn Roe v. Wade, the AP <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kkruesi\/status\/1521934671927562240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> journalists to only use these gender-neutral phrases when specifically discussing transgender and nonbinary individuals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New AP style guidance alert: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bCYr8KExr2\">pic.twitter.com\/bCYr8KExr2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kimberlee Kruesi (@kkruesi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kkruesi\/status\/1521934671927562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPhrasing like \u2018pregnant people\u2019 or \u2018people who seek an abortion\u2019 seeks to include people who have those experiences but do not identify as women, such as some \u2018transgender\u2019 men and some \u2018nonbinary\u2019 people,\u201d the new AP guidance reads.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance instructs writers to use different pregnancy-related terms in different contexts by referring to pregnant women as \u201cwomen\u201d when the story is about abortion, but not when the story is about transgender people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch phrasing should be confined to stories that specifically address the experiences of people who do not identify as women,\u201d the guidance said.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet has previously used the phrases \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/1415741732252266496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pregnant people<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/abortion-health-arizona-legislature-medication-f9ccf6c31aa2ce6f2f3d8cfc03ca9601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">people who have abortions<\/a>,\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-health-michigan-gretchen-whitmer-sales-taxes-719fd55af1d384adff71ff419f468afb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">people who menstruate<\/a>\u201d in its articles.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative commentators criticized the move, viewing it as a politicized effort to center the abortion debate around women\u2019s rights after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/29\/health\/cdc-pregnancy-covid-vaccine.html\">media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/20\/new-york-times-women-mentruators\/\">pushed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/03\/31\/pregnancy-covid-risk\/\">gender-neutral<\/a> language about women\u2019s reproductive issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLMAO at the AP trying to explain why when it\u2019s writing about abortion, the story is about women, but when it\u2019s writing about transgenderism, the story is about pregnant people,\u201d Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1522319182729207808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press updated its style guide on pregnancy and abortion Wednesday to discourage journalists from using gender-neutral phrases when writing about abortion despite having previously encouraged the terms.Corporate media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":1481883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}