{"id":1466783,"date":"2022-05-06T14:44:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466783"},"modified":"2022-05-06T14:44:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:44:45","slug":"associated-press-style-guide-adds-phrase-pregnant-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/associated-press-style-guide-adds-phrase-pregnant-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Associated Press Style Guide Adds Phrase \u201cPregnant People\u201d"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fassociated-press-style-guide-adds-phrase-pregnant-people%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=1466783&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 class=\"image-ct featured featured-image\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/640\/320\/ap-logo-.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"speechkit-wrapper\" class=\"speechkit-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/ap-style-mistress-mocked-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The AP Style Guide<\/a> recently made an update to its inclusive language protocols, adding the phrase &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/washington-post-slammed-referencing-pregnant-people-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pregnant people<\/a>&#8221; to cover trans or nonbinary people who can get pregnant but don\u2019t identify as women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/topic\/associated-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a> reporter Kimberlee Kruesi \u2013 who announces her pronouns in her Twitter bio \u2013 alerted Twitter to the new guidance. She tweeted, &#8220;New AP style guidance alert&#8221; and shared a screenshot of the update.<\/p>\n<p>The entry gave a newly defined usage for the phrase &#8220;pregnant people,&#8221; and also included instructions on usage for the phrase &#8220;people who seek an abortion.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/devout-catholic-biden-torched-appealing-his-rights-child-god-justify-abortion\"><strong>\u2018DEVOUT CATHOLIC\u2019 BIDEN TORCHED FOR APPEALING TO HIS RIGHTS AS A \u2018CHILD OF GOD\u2019 TO JUSTIFY ABORTION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/640\/320\/pregnant-people.png?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"AP journalist tweets about new AP style guide update concerning \" pregnant people \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      AP journalist tweets about new AP style guide update concerning &#8220;pregnant people.&#8221;\n      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It stated, &#8220;Phrasing like <i>pregnant people\u00a0<\/i>or <i>people who seek an abortion\u00a0<\/i>seeks to include people who have those experiences but do not identify as women, such as some <i>transgender\u00a0<\/i>men and some <i>nonbinary <\/i>people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The second half of the entry specified where and when the &#8220;phrasing&#8221; should be used, &#8220;Such phrasing should be confined to stories that specifically address the experiences of people who do not identify as women. See gender, sex and sexual orientation.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many conservatives were insulted, confused, or amused at seeing this entry on their Twitter feeds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Political fundraiser Beth Bauman tweeted, &#8220;What an insult to women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Latina conservative influencer Jennifer Barreto-Leyva tweeted, &#8220;This is ridiculous. Only women can get pregnant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/640\/320\/van-laar.png?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Jennifer Van Laar denounces new AP style guide update concerning \" pregnant people \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Jennifer Van Laar denounces new AP style guide update concerning &#8220;pregnant people.&#8221;\n      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>RedState managing editor Jennifer Van Laar slammed the entry, tweeting, &#8220;This is why I do not have my editors and writers conform to new AP style guidance\/manuals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clown show on display,&#8221; is how Arizona GOP chairwoman Dr. Kelli Ward described the guidance.<\/p>\n<p>Lone Conservative founder Kassy Dillon expressed confusion at the new entry, tweeting, &#8220;What in tarnation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/psaki-disturbs-twitter-her-disgusting-response-leftists-doxxing-supreme-court-justices\"><strong>PSAKI DISTURBS TWITTER WITH HER \u2018DISGUSTING\u2019 RESPONSE TO LEFTISTS DOXXING SUPREME COURT JUSTICES<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/640\/320\/simonson.png?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Joe Gabriel Simonson blasts new AP style guide update concerning \" pregnant people \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Joe Gabriel Simonson blasts new AP style guide update concerning &#8220;pregnant people.&#8221;\n      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Washington Free Beacon author Joe Gabriel Simonson captioned the screenshot of the entry, writing, &#8220;New Democratic Party instructions alert.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then provided his opinion on what purpose the entry serves in a subsequent response. &#8220;[T]here is absolutely zero reason to release this clarification other than in service to the democratic party. elite media and social media platforms just spent the last year or two berating\/punishing anyone who said men can&#8217;t get pregnant,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idiots who run the @AP style guide are anti-human and anti-woman,&#8221; tweeted Media Research Center Vice President of Free Speech America and MRC Business Dan Gainor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/640\/320\/gainorAP.png?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Dan Gainor slams new AP style guide update concerning \" pregnant people \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Dan Gainor slams new AP style guide update concerning &#8220;pregnant people.&#8221;\n      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>YAF National Journalism Center program director Becket Adams asked, &#8220;[S]o am [I] allowed to have an opinion on abortion or not? because I\u2019m getting mixed messages this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Heroes of Liberty editor Bethany Mandel tweeted, &#8220;Not great timing for the \u2018women\u2019s rights\u2019 crusaders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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