Rep. Cori Bush Says Birthing People in Maternal Health Crisis Testimony, and Twitter Goes Nuts
On 5/6/21 at 6:08 PM EDT
Democratic Missouri Representative Cori Bush used the gender-inclusive term birthing people on Thursday while testifying before the Democratic Oversight Committee about America s Black maternal health crisis. After she tweeted out a video of her testimony, the term birthing people immediately became the center of an embittered Twitter war over whether the gender-neutral term was justified. Every day, Black birthing people and our babies die because our doctors don t believe our pain. My children almost became a statistic. I almost became a statistic, read her initial tweet. I testified about my experience @OversightDems today. Hear us. Believe us. Because for so long, nobody has.