ACLU is slammed for altering Ruth Bader Ginsburg quote about abortion rights to remove female pronouns and replacing 'woman' with 'person'

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The American Civil Liberties Union has been slammed over a tweet which altered a famous quote from the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg about abortion rights, replacing the word 'woman' with 'person' and swapping female pronouns with 'they.'

'The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a [person's] life, to [their] well-being and dignity… When the government controls that decision for [people], [they are] being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for [their] own choices,' the ACLU posted in a photo on Twitter on the one-year anniversary of Ginsburg's death on Saturday.

The ACLU removed the term 'woman' and altered the pronouns to be inclusive of trans and non-binary individuals who might also seek an abortion.

'The ACLU literally erasing women,' wrote Greg Scott, of the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom group.

Dave Weigel, of the Washington Post, wrote that changing the quote was not a good look for the ACLU.

'The pronoun wars are bad and silly but editing a Ginsburg quote to remove any reference to "women" looks so clumsy.'

Author Colin Moriarty likened the change to George Orwell's novel, 1984.

'You have become the exact type of language-bending Orwellian institution you once opposed,' he wrote about the ACLU.

Along with wanting to celebrate Ginsburg, who co-founded the ACLU's Women's Rights Project in 1972, the ACLU wanted to address the current issues involving the access to abortion.

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I am not a lawyer or a journalist, but even I know you should not change peoples words when you Quote them, especially if that person's quote is well known