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DOH top doc called white women ‘birthing people,’ minorities ‘mothers’, reported backpedal is WORSE

April 2, 2022 | | Print Article

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Despite extensive training in anatomy, New York City’s top medical doctor seems unclear on the biological concept of birth and pregnancy and prompted swift backlash after utilizing a gender-neutral term to refer to pregnant women.

Dr. Michelle Morse – who has been with the Department of Health since February 2021 – initially tweeted to announce an expansion of the citywide “birth equity” initiative and to bring to light a disparity in mortality rates of newborns of different races.

But that woke message was outdone by another. In a follow-up message, she used the progressive left’s term “birthing people” instead of just saying “pregnant women.”

To make matters worse, Blacks and Puerto Ricans were called mothers but only “non-Hispanic Whites” were referred to using the superfluous term “birthing people.”

“The urgency of this moment is clear. Mortality rates of birthing people are too high, and babies born to Black and Puerto Rican mothers in this city are three times more likely to die in their first year of life than babies born to non-Hispanic White birthing people,” she tweeted on March 23.


Social media users pounced on the city’s Chief Medical Officer for offending women across the board with one woman calling for outright revocation of her ability to practice medicine.


Others focused on what they felt was inherent racism woven into her comment where she used different terminology for different races.

***Warning: Language***

However, it’s not unusual for New York City to consider race in its health care system.

Last year, the Department of Health issued guidance that incorporated race as a factor in considering Covid-19 treatments. Officials advised that they would “consider race and ethnicity when assessing individual risk,” also noting that “longstanding systemic health and social inequities” play a factor in risks from Covid-19.

A Harvard epidemiologist and professor told the New York Post that economic factors are to blame for the increased risk of death for black New Yorkers – not race.

“I have not seen [race] as one of the risk factors for severe disease and death,” Martin Kulldorff said. “The reason that a lot of African Americans have died in New York – which is true – is because the rich people and more affluent were working from home while the working class were exposed.”

Some people found the underlying issue of a well-educated medical professional espousing such woke terminology the most concerning aspect of the doctor’s message.


But some were simply so taken aback by the tone-deaf comment that they questioned whether or not they were being played.

A Department of Health spokesperson backpedaled on Morse’s comment, calling it an “oversight,” according to a report by the New York Post.

And then the spokesperson proceeded to double down on using the gender-neutral term.

“We apologize for inadvertently gendering Black and Puerto Rican birthing people.”

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32 thoughts on “DOH top doc called white women ‘birthing people,’ minorities ‘mothers’, reported backpedal is WORSE”

  2. When conservatives question climate change and vaccines, they are science deniers. Yet the alt-left discards biological science that’s been proven since humans first walked the earth (not to mention every species of mammal on earth), but we’re supposed to kowtow to their insanity.

    You need ovaries and a uterus to get pregnant and carry a baby. If you have ovaries and a uterus, you are female. An adult female is called a woman.

    If a woman wants to “identity” and live as a man, that’s her right. But if she gets pregnant, it’s because she’s a biological woman, and she will therefore be a mother.

    I can’t believe this is even a topic of conversation. Transgender people are .6% of the population. Let’s let our language reflect the other 99.4%

    Leftists are science deniers.

    Attend to the lessons of Orwell’s 1984. Newspeak is a controlled, simplified version of English. It removes “subversive” concepts from the language that the Party wants its citizens to avoid. These include expressions of personal identity, free will, or anything resembling a rebellion. It focuses on the ideology of INGSOC and the belief that the Party is all-knowing. “It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought—that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc—should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.”

  4. Racism, racism and more racism. When I saw a black women , I mean, person with dark skin and a vagina, I realized that this was racism and nothing more.

  5. She is a bigot and Racism is all about dividing people. She has no respect and as a Doctor this should be grounds for dismissal.

  6. Dude, birthing people? F this B. Can’t have these crazies in charge, people. Be sure you are registered to vote for the November elections. That’s our current option.

  8. Is it always the same excuses?
    I missed spoke or some Schitt like that!!

  11.  𝐈 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 £𝟏𝟒𝟓 𝐭𝐨 £𝟑𝟗𝟓 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞. 𝐈 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝟑 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐲 £𝟐𝟑𝐤 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 . 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞… 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐝𝐨…………>>> 𝙬𝙬𝙬.𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙗𝙯.𝙘𝙤𝙢

  13. They won’t do any to her…no use complaining. She’s a privileged class.

  14. Once you go down this stupid path, you just get stupider. Who cares about this nonsense?

    1. Stupid “IS” stupid! Even a dem cannot get stupider! I know this is hard to believe but the definition of stupid is a person who lacks common sense. You either have it or you don’t have it. They can be more sadistic as shown by their propensity to use abortion as birth control and now that we even have states that allow a fully termed baby to be killed at delivery, and call that an abortion when it really is murder, or at least infanticide, only exemplifies how sadistic they can get and how evil they are.

  15. Put all these sick b”stard’s in one place then exterminate them. They are only 3%, NOBODY WILL MISS THEM.

  18. More proof that the democrat party is racist and has been for 200 years. They try to hide it but it finds it’s way out. Pandering is racist. They can’t help it. It’s in their blood.

    1. Hi Mick. Another (maybe even better) example of racism among the democraps is the “nomination” (and probably confirmation) of Jackson for the Supreme Court. She and they have NO integrity, NO decency, NO honor. SWAMP SCUM gubment “workers” all.

      1. Hi Rayman,
        True. So while the dems pick Jackson for the Supreme Court because she is black and supposedly a woman, they want to impeach Clarence Thomas because he is a black conservative who left the democrat plantation. So he must be punished. Unless, pf course he comes back to the plantation…but not with his white wife. Thomas is a great man. I read his book “My Father’s Son” many years ago.

  19. Let the mayhem begin. Talk about having things almost totally ass backwards. How about calling the majority of the second group crack whores, and semi or completely illiterate slags unfit to raise a child? We see the results in the news every damned day with the appalling number of shootings, murders, knife and razor attacks, brutal beatings and murders of elderly white and Asian people. This ass-kissing sick adoration of the small 12% most criminal, most illiterate, least educated, most violent, most entitled, black privileged, least productive, most destructive, worst element of our society has to stop and the hammer has to be brought down on them in a way that will never be forgotten.

  20. Yeah, because black women are the bar for motherhood. Lol!

    Most pathetic race on earth…

  21. Ya’ll seen enough yet? Don’t pay attention to the Distractions. Ya’ll know what needs to be done, Git r Dun! NCSWIC,WWG1WGA, P.A.N.I.C. Let’s Go Brandon, FJB

  22. That was NO MISTAKE – those “people” measure their words VERY CAREFULLY so as to NOT OFFEND the easily OFFENDED! The “other offended”? THEY don’t count – DEMOcraps need the BLACK votes!

    1. Today I read an article saying that Biden is losing the black voters and a couple of hours later I read that Black and Hispanic women can be mothers and white women are birthing people. Lets pander a little more – your desperation is showing. Yes I called them all women.

  23. It just gets more and more irritating as the left continues to use cancel culture language to damage our culture.. Shame on this ‘woke’ jerk,

  24. Another stupid leftist trying to discriminate based on the color of a person’s skin. They are not birthing people they are mothers. Go back to school and get a real education so you don’t sound so stupid.

  25. Do these comedians on the left practice and rehearse their comedic acts or are they just naturally silly geniuses? What an embarrassment to America!

  26. Morse is just following the dem playbook, by using the divide and rule tactic, along with the Orwellian control of language to try to re program how citizens are supposed to view the world. Both are despicable, as is Morse.

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