Mass verbicide in New York: State legislature moves to replace mother and father with “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent”

If you kill a language, you kill an entire universe of meaning. C. S. Lewis famously decried what he called “verbicide” or “the murder of a word.” As you might expect, Lewis saw this as a great crime. We can only imagine what he would think of the State of New York, where legislators have moved to replace “mother” with “gestating parent” in the law.Sadly, this is serious, and the subversion goes well beyond motherhood. The legislature has already passed the legislation, and it is now before New