Hochul must halt New Yorks motherhood erasure and step up for families

A last-minute vote in Albany this month took New York one step closer to achieving the left’s long-cherished goal: vaporizing the nuclear family.Does Gov.Kathy Hochul have enough spine to stop it?The bill, S.9316, will erase the words “mother” and “father” from key sections of state law — and replace them with the coldly clinical “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent.”This isn’t modernization, but cultural vandalism dressed up as inclusivity.True, “mother” and “father” are not neutral terms.Nor are they mere biological functions. They define roles based on biology, love, sacrifice, unique bonds and millennia of human experience.That reality — a mother’s pregnancy and nurturing; a father’s paternity and providing — gives each parent irreplaceable significance in a child’s life.Reducing them to the legislature’s hollow, sterile terms intentionally diminishes and demeans them.Adoptive or step- mothers and fathers who provide vital love and stability, regardless of gestation, are equally denigrated by this insidious linguistic warping.The majority claims they’re aiming for legal neutrality, but their new terms are anything but neutral.“Gestating parent” reduces women to incubators, targeting and diminishing motherhood while pretending to elevate fairness.“Non-gestating parent” similarly flattens fathers into a residual category — defined by inaction, it throttles their distinct contributions of strength, security and guidance.This ideology-driven, objectifying language devalues the mothers and fathers who work to build strong families that mold their children’s emotional, educational and economic outcomes.It undermines the foundational roles that for millennia have sustained stable societies.It erodes the cultural and legal recognition that complementary parenting benefits kids most.The damage extends beyond mere symbolism: S.9316 amends the Family Court Act, Domestic Relations Law, Civil Practice Law and ...