{"id":823312,"date":"2021-09-28T09:58:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=823312"},"modified":"2021-09-28T09:58:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:58:35","slug":"aclu-director-regrets-altering-rgb-quote-about-pregnant-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aclu-director-regrets-altering-rgb-quote-about-pregnant-women\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU Director \u2018Regrets\u2019 Altering RGB Quote About Pregnant Women"},"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\">18<\/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%2Faclu-director-regrets-altering-rgb-quote-about-pregnant-women%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=823312&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 executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said he regrets altering one of late Supreme Court Justice\u2019s Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u2019s quotes in an effort to be gender-neutral, according to The New York Times (NYT).<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Romero told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/27\/opinion\/rbg-aclu-abortion.html\">NYT<\/a> Monday he regrets the decision to remove the word \u201cwoman\u201d from one of Ginsburg\u2019s most famous quotes and said going forward the organization would not alter quotes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving spent time with Justice Ginsburg, I would like to believe that if she were alive today, she would encourage us to evolve our language to encompass a broader vision of gender, identity and sexuality,\u201d Romero reportedly added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.2837209302326\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ACLU\u2019s Anthony Romero tells Goldberg that it was a mistake for them to change a Ginsburg quote by replacing \u201cwomen\u201d with \u201c[people]\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ii08djtEhp\">https:\/\/t.co\/ii08djtEhp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daveweigel\/status\/1442822054903009284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/22\/aclu-ruth-bader-ginsburg-abortion-quote-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">organization dedicated a tweet<\/a> to Ginsburg on the anniversary of her death, using a quote from her 1993 confirmation hearing in which she weighed in on her feelings about abortion. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/02\/critics-blame-ginsburg-texas-abortion-law-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Thanks You Old Dead White Bitch\u2019: Critics Blame Ginsburg When Texas Abortion Law Survives Supreme Court Challenge)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a [person\u2019s] life, to [their] well-being and dignity \u2026 When government controls that decision for [people], [they are] being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for [their] own choices,\u201d the altered quote read.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.96138996139\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u2019s death, we lost a champion for abortion and gender equality. And on the anniversary of her death, the fight to protect abortion access is more urgent than ever. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vIKadIHouN\">pic.twitter.com\/vIKadIHouN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ACLU (@ACLU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACLU\/status\/1439259891064004610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The decision to alter the famous quote drew criticism from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/23\/bullsht-megyn-kelly-blasts-aclu-eliminated-women-ruth-bader-ginsbergs-abortion-quote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Megyn Kelly<\/a>, who blasted the organization for eliminating women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday the ACLU decided to celebrate, not celebrate, but commemorate the one-year mark of Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u2019s death by retweeting a famous quote of her\u2019s about a woman\u2019s \u2018right to choose,&#8217;\u201d Kelly said during an episode of her SiriusXM radio show \u201cThe Megyn Kelly Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t get to mess with somebody\u2019s quote to make it more inclusive after the fact and after they are dead,\u201d Kelly said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said he regrets altering one of late Supreme Court Justice\u2019s Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u2019s quotes in an effort to be gender-neutral, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823312","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\/823312","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}