{"id":561156,"date":"2021-06-11T15:36:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T19:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=561156"},"modified":"2021-06-11T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T19:36:40","slug":"watch-bidens-hhs-sec-grins-as-he-refuses-to-say-the-word-mother-instead-of-birthing-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-bidens-hhs-sec-grins-as-he-refuses-to-say-the-word-mother-instead-of-birthing-people\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Biden\u2019s HHS Sec Grins As He Refuses To Say The Word \u2018Mother\u2019 Instead Of \u2018Birthing People\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fwatch-bidens-hhs-sec-grins-as-he-refuses-to-say-the-word-mother-instead-of-birthing-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=561156&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1322882101.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking before the Senate Finance Committee hearing about the Biden administration\u2019s fiscal year\u00a02022 HHS budget request, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra was confronted by Oklahoma GOP Senator James Lankford about the removal of the word \u201cmother\u201d and the insertion of the term \u201cbirthing people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Lankford asked for a good definition of \u201cbirthing people,\u201d Becerra was literally unable to say the word \u201cmother,\u201d instead grinning and responding, \u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t know how else to explain it to you other than\u201d before his voice petered out.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that exchange, Lankford questioned Becerra about religious freedom, saying, \u201cAt your nomination hearing, you and I talked about the conscience and freedom, and freedom and faith, all those protections that are there. I was surprised to see the language in the budget; it stripped out much of that language that had existed in previous budgets about freedom of conscience, freedom of religion. And it also seems that you\u2019re eliminating the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division. Is that true? In your budget, are you eliminating the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to continue to do the work to protect the religious, civil, constitutional rights of all Americans under HHS\u2019 purview, and we are going to be a solid organization through the Office of Civil Rights that we have to make sure we\u2019re protecting everyone\u2019s rights, including religious conscience rights,\u201d Becerra protested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you\u2019re taking away that division as a priority and putting it under something else or where is it going?\u201d Lankford queried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt continues to function; the work continues to be functioning under the Offices of Civil Rights,\u201d Becerra claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Later Lankford cornered Becerra about the elision of the word \u201cmother,\u201d asserting, \u201cI also notice you changed a term in your budget where you shifted in places from using the term \u2018mother\u2019 to \u2018birthing people\u2019 rather than \u2018mother.\u2019 Can you help me get a good definition of \u2018birthing people?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Becerra deflected, \u201cWell, I\u2019ll check on the language there, but I think if we\u2019re talking about those who give birth I think we\u2019re talking about \u2014\u201d Unable to bring himself to say \u201cmother,\u201d Becerra grinned, \u201cI don\u2019t know how else to explain it to you other than \u2026\u201d as his voice petered out.<\/p>\n<p>Lankford pressed, \u201cI was a little taken aback when I just read it and saw it that the term \u2018mother\u2019 was gone and it was replaced with \u2018birthing people\u201d and I didn\u2019t know if this was a direction you were going, if there were shifts, if there were regulatory changes that are happening related to that or what the purpose of that is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Becerra dodged, \u201cI think it\u2019s probably \u2014 and again I\u2019d have to go back and take a look at the language that was used in the budget, but I think it simply reflects the work that is being done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI definitely get that; I would only say the language is important always; we don\u2019t want to offend in our language; I get that,\u201d Lankford said. \u201cBut would you at least admit calling a mom a \u2018birthing person\u2019 could be offensive to some moms? They don\u2019t want to get like a \u2018Happy Birthing Person\u2019 card in May. Can you at least admit that term itself could be offensive to some moms?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Becerra still wouldn\u2019t admit Lankford\u2019s argument, instead laughing, \u201cSenator, I\u2019ll go back and take a look at the terminology that was used and I can get back to you, but again, if we\u2019re trying to be precise in the language that\u2019s used.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lankford fired, \u201cMom\u2019s a pretty good word. That\u2019s worked for a while and I think that\u2019s pretty precise as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lankford Slams HHS Secretary on Changing &quot;Mother&quot; to &quot;Birthing Person&quot; in President&#039;s Budget Request\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BsYcj1hQKgQ?start=60&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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