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| ACLU chief forced to apologize for erasing women & female pronouns from Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s abortions quote, blames digital team | ACLU chief forced to apologize for erasing women & female pronouns from Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s abortions quote, blames digital team |
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| The head of the ACLU has apologized after his org altered a quote from late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, stripping it of all reference to gender despite the fact the passage specifically centered on childbearing. | The head of the ACLU has apologized after his org altered a quote from late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, stripping it of all reference to gender despite the fact the passage specifically centered on childbearing. |
| Apparently meant to pay homage to the late justice, a September 18 tweet from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) relayed a 1993 Ginsburg quote defending women’s right to have abortions. However, in place of the words “woman’s,” “she” and “her,” the civil liberties group decided to editorialize, using the gender-neutral terms “persons” and “their” instead. | Apparently meant to pay homage to the late justice, a September 18 tweet from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) relayed a 1993 Ginsburg quote defending women’s right to have abortions. However, in place of the words “woman’s,” “she” and “her,” the civil liberties group decided to editorialize, using the gender-neutral terms “persons” and “their” instead. |
| The removal of all references to gender from the passage sparked some public backlash, even among pundits in the corporate media. On Monday, the New York Times ran a column blasting the decision, titled simply “The ACLU Errs on RBG,” using a popular acronym for Ginsburg’s name. In it, the ACLU’s executive director Anthony Romero was quoted as saying he “regrets” the September 18 tweet, and later told the Times for a separate story that the org “won’t be altering people’s quotes” in the future. | The removal of all references to gender from the passage sparked some public backlash, even among pundits in the corporate media. On Monday, the New York Times ran a column blasting the decision, titled simply “The ACLU Errs on RBG,” using a popular acronym for Ginsburg’s name. In it, the ACLU’s executive director Anthony Romero was quoted as saying he “regrets” the September 18 tweet, and later told the Times for a separate story that the org “won’t be altering people’s quotes” in the future. |
| However, Romero nonetheless divined that, “having 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.” | However, Romero nonetheless divined that, “having 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.” |
| The iconic quote cited in the ACLU’s tweet was excerpted from a 1993 speech on the Senate floor, in which Ginsburg broke with the typically reserved commentary from SCOTUS justices and gave a forceful defense of her view of abortion rights. | The iconic quote cited in the ACLU’s tweet was excerpted from a 1993 speech on the Senate floor, in which Ginsburg broke with the typically reserved commentary from SCOTUS justices and gave a forceful defense of her view of abortion rights. |
| “The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices,” she said – in her own words – at the time. | “The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices,” she said – in her own words – at the time. |
| Beyond the mainstream media, a number of observers online also took issue with the ACLU’s creative license, some asking why a civil rights organization would “censor” a quotation and “make RBG say something she didn’t say?” | Beyond the mainstream media, a number of observers online also took issue with the ACLU’s creative license, some asking why a civil rights organization would “censor” a quotation and “make RBG say something she didn’t say?” |
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