GOP Senator Confronts HHS Secretary Over ‘Birthing People’ Term

On June 10, during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the president’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget, Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford (R.) confronted Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra about the department’s replacement of the word mothers with the term birthing people. “Can you help me get a good definition of birthing people?” Lankford asked. To which Becerra answered …