The New Legal Term Democrats Want For ‘Mother’

New York Democrats passed a bill earlier this week that would replace “mother” with “gestating parent” in state child custody and parental laws. 

The new bill would also replace “father” with “non-gestating parent” in an attempt to create gender-inclusive terms in legal situations, The New York Post reported. The bill alters “paternity” proceedings, which determine a child’s biological father, to “parentage” cases. The bill also changes the term “putative father,” a man biologically related to a child without a legal relationship, to “an alleged parent.” 

The bill was sponsored by Democrats Amy Paulin in the State Assembly and Senator Luis Sepulveda in the State Senate. The bill now proceeds to New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk for approval. 

A memo accompanied the bill, claiming the legislation is necessary due to surrogacy cases with same-sex parents. An adoption lawyer said “mother” and “father” are outdated terms considering how many same-sex couple adoptions there are, according to the Post. 

Conservatives immediately slammed the leftist bill. Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar said the legislation was “woke culture run amok.”

“It’s an example of how out of tune the New York legislature is,” Kassar said, according to the Post. “It’s an unnecessary and wasteful use of time.” 

Kassar views this gender-neutral bill as the first in a stampede of others, and ripped Democratic state lawmakers’ priorities as backward. 

Bruce Blakeman, a Republican gubernatorial candidate, added that the Democrats are continuing a “war” on New York families through this attempt to strip away the “loving terms of Mom and Dad.”

“The insanity ends when I’m governor,” Blakeman said.

Republican state Senator Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick found the bill superfluous, especially at a time when New York is being “crushed by utility bills, rising costs, and public safety concerns.”

“Albany Democrats have decided one of their final priorities in the last days of session should be replacing mothers and fathers in state law,” Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick said, per the New York Post. “That is not what families are asking for.”

Some Democratic lawmakers even “rolled their eyes” at the language as they voted for the bill, finding it unnecessary, according to the Post.

When Governor Hochul was asked about whether she supported this gender-neutral legislation, she claimed she wasn’t familiar with it and needed to review the bill.