Tag: birthing people

Happy ‘Birthing People’s’ Day?

Commentary The greeting card industry isn’t going to like this. They’re going to have to change all their cards for Mother’s Day, this year on May 8, to Birthing People’s Day. That’s if they follow the terminology in San Diego Board of Supervisors Chair Nathan Fletcher’s March 1 Agenda Item, which passed unanimously. The content…


Republicans Urge Gov. Wolf: Unleash Pennsylvania’s Immense Gas Reserves

Looking at the instability of the European energy markets, Pennsylvania House Republicans are urging Gov. Tom Wolf to unleash Pennsylvania’s natural gas stores to power the world. The largest natural gas reserve in the United States is mostly underground, in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. “If our region was its own country, we’d be the eighth…


With ‘Birthing People’ We Approach a ‘Brave New World’

Commentary I am writing on May 9, Mothers’ Day in the United States. I used to look askance at the holiday, not because I have anything against mothers—on the contrary—but because it always seemed like a Hallmark Holiday, something manufactured by corporate interests and glazed in a sugar of sentimentality from which one could free…