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“Fetus,” “Transgender” Among Words Banned in CDC Documents

HeadlineDec 18, 2017

The Trump administration has barred top federal health officials from using seven words or phrases relating to abortion, sexuality and science in official documents. The Washington Post broke the news Friday, citing an anonymous whistleblower who says policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control were told of the banned words at a meeting last week. The words are “fetus,” “entitlement,” “vulnerable,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.” In a statement, Kaylie Hanson Long of NARAL Pro-Choice America said, “Forbidding scientists and researchers from using medically accurate terminology in order to push an extreme, ideological agenda is more 'dystopia' than ‘United States of America.’”

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