MADISON – State Representative Amanda Nedweski (R-Pleasant Prairie) issued the following response to Governor Evers’s 2025-2027 budget, which on multiple occasions replaces the word “mother” with phrases like “parent who gave birth” and “inseminated person.”:
“As a proud mother of two, it is absolutely insulting that the Governor, in his 2025-27 budget bill, would reduce me and millions of other mothers across Wisconsin to ‘inseminated persons.’ It is not only deeply offensive, but it is an outright attack on the very essence of motherhood. It is unconscionable that the Governor has the audacity to take the most beautiful, life-giving act a woman can perform—bringing children into this world—and turn it into nothing more than gender-neutral, virtue-signaling jargon to appease his far-left base.”
“Governor Evers is a former science teacher,” Nedweski added. “It appears to me that he needs a refresher on basic biology. Last I checked, only one gender is capable of giving birth—women. Anyone who says otherwise is denying science.”
The Governor’s budget bill strikes the word “mother” and replaces it with gender-neutral terminology on at least 30 occasions. He replaces the word “father” over 120 times throughout the 1,917-page document.
“Governor Evers proudly proclaimed his tax-and-spend budget to be ‘the most pro-kid budget in state history.’ However no budget can be truly pro-kid while erasing mothers and fathers from the equation,” Nedweski said. “Contrary to what Evers and his liberal allies on the fringes of the Democrat Party believe, our kids are not wards of the state. They belong to their parents. No amount of statutory language changes will ever change that fact. Governor Evers owes every woman and every mother in Wisconsin an apology for diminishing the importance and dignity of motherhood.”
Nedweski, who was first elected in 2022 as a parental rights advocate, has championed legislation that empowers parents. She represents the 32nd Assembly District, which includes the Town and Village of Bloomfield, Village of Bristol, Town of Brighton, Village of Genoa City, portions of Kenosha, portions of Lake Geneva, Village of Paddock Lake, Town of Paris, Village of Pleasant Prairie, Town of Randall, Village of Salem Lakes, Village of Twin Lakes, and the Town of Wheatland.
Examples of the language changes have been included for reference.
