DISPATCHES FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH: ACLU Issues Weak Apology for Erasing ‘Women’ From RBG Abortion Quote. “It was a mistake among the digital team,” says executive director Anthony Romero.

Regardless of one’s position on trans issues and the rapidly evolving demands of progressive activists with respect to conscious language choices, it is wrong to go back in time and pretend that people used different words. Demands for greater sensitivity should not prompt a literal rewriting of history. Progressive thought leaders of the very, very recent past recognized fundamental differences between men and women—it’s absurd to pretend otherwise, and to obscure this fact by changing the speech they used.

Someone should inform the L.A. Times as well that this is wrong: