The Erasure of Mother and Father in New York
American Spectator,
by
Bob Capano
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
6/22/2026 12:03:00 PM
The first words out of my son’s mouth were “Mom” and “Dad,” words that capture the beautiful, natural reality of human life and family. Yet New York’s Democrat-controlled legislature has passed a bill that seeks to erase these foundational terms from state law, replacing “mother” with the clinical “gestating parent” and “father” with the soulless “non-gestating parent.” “Paternity” becomes “parentage,” and “putative father” yields to “alleged parent.” This Orwellian rewrite now sits on Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk.[snip]Mothers gestate and give birth; fathers provide the other half of the biological equation.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
padiva 6/22/2026 12:12:15 PM (No. 2119555)
Why identify a female as a 'gestating person' when in some realities females are unable to procreate,
or had a child who did not live,
choose not to procreate or
choose the alter of abortion.
This labelling is not inclusive.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 6/22/2026 12:17:35 PM (No. 2119560)
WE cannot allow the left to control our language. It's a fact that only women can give birth. You're feeding the beast if you participate in their mindless word games
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
marlon 6/22/2026 12:53:50 PM (No. 2119567)
With all the issues facing NY I'm sure this is first most in the concerns of the citizens. Idiots!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 6/22/2026 1:03:39 PM (No. 2119572)
Erasure - that is it! Not even moving over to accommodate the new extreme minority terms. Replacing them entirely, there is not even a nod toward normalcy. Normal is a derogatory place setting.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/22/2026 1:43:37 PM (No. 2119585)
Screw New York and everyone who lives there
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LadyVet 6/22/2026 2:07:57 PM (No. 2119591)
Instead of "putative parent" and "alleged" parent, wht not be technically accurate and say sperm donor?
Interesting that they used "putative" parent. I think I once saw a legal case involving a "putative wife," the term being casually explained as " whore wife." NY may be taking into account that so many babies are born to single women. In Spanish, the word translates closely
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BocaLaura 6/22/2026 2:26:06 PM (No. 2119594)
This parental concept is easy to accept when one believes that everything, even our children, belongs to the state.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 6/22/2026 2:31:12 PM (No. 2119595)
When our children were still in school whenever I had to sign some kind of school form the line where you'd put your signature, under that would be...parent/guardian. I always crossed out the guardian word.
I wonder if a New York parent, if they cross out the stupid new words for mom or dad and sign mother or father will be arrested for a hate crime.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 6/22/2026 2:40:46 PM (No. 2119604)
Insane leftists run NY. I am happy to stay far away from this open air insane asylum. Can no one see that voting for Dems gets you endless failure, endless insanity?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 6/22/2026 2:41:21 PM (No. 2119605)
Since real parenthood is disappearing, I prefer the non-gender terms sperm donor and egg donor. Being a parent is more than the five seconds, and giving birth. Many (if not most) don’t like the hard work that follows.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
VAPMAN 6/22/2026 2:45:06 PM (No. 2119608)
Governor Hochul, are you really that stupid to sign this piece of crap into law?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Luandir 6/22/2026 2:52:18 PM (No. 2119611)
This is actually a Huxleyan rewrite rather than Orwellian. In "Brave New World" children are gestated in vitro all the way up to hatching. "Mother" was actually a shocking, semi-dirty word. That seems to be right where New York is heading.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 6/22/2026 3:45:00 PM (No. 2119629)
New York State and New York City are officially in a death spiral. And it's what happens in one party towns. Hey, I don't blame this on dumocrats, they be grabbin' with both hands. I blame it on our non-existent, feckless, cowardice republican party, what's left of it. Nixon's son-in-law is the idiot chair of an already declining republican party. He's putting the last nail in the coffin of the party, along with the state and city. The party is so corrupt that it is almost impossible to try to get new leadership. Kudos to Bruce Blakeman for running for governor and trying to do something about the corruption and the socialism that is metastasizing in the state. But he's petty much on his own. Disgusting.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/22/2026 3:47:33 PM (No. 2119632)
First language, then education, then culture , then the economy, then politics, then the laws. It is a systematic Long March. Started when we meekly started using gender for sex.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Moritz55 6/22/2026 4:07:26 PM (No. 2119638)
Hello, Gestating Parent! Hello, Non-Gestating Parent! Here I am at Camp Granada!
Doesn’t quite have the same ring, does it?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
chance_232 6/22/2026 5:24:28 PM (No. 2119657)
This is only going to fly with the blue haired potentially gestating persons if a non-gestating beta person will actually touch Xir. Any SANE person who has borne or sired a child anxiously waits to be called mom or dad. What are we supposed to call the child? A non-registered democrat voter?
The mother and fathers day cards should be hysterical.
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