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On the Ted radio hour, linguist Ann.
Curzan says she gets a lot of.
Complaints about people using the pronoun they.
To refer to one person.
I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me, but it can't be singular.
And I will say, but it is.
The history behind words causing a lot of debate.
That's on the Ted radio hour from NPR.
This is FRESH aiR.
I'm Tanya Moseley.
Abortion is now on the ballot in Florida.
Voters will decide in November whether to enshrine abortion rights into its constitution.
Now, this comes after Florida's Supreme Court ruled this week that the state's constitution does not protect abortion, and this removed the barriers for a separate six week ban that will take effect next month.
This ruling has also primed abortion opponents to seek broad fetal personhood protections.
Now, you've probably been hearing that phrase a lot lately.
Over the last year, lawmakers in nearly a dozen states have considered efforts to give legal rights and protections to embryos and fetuses, everything from income tax deductions to giving a fetus the right to child support.
And in some cases, these proposed rights outstrip those given to pregnant people.
The longstanding effort is an outgrowth of decades of anti abortion organizing, writes journalist Carter Sherman.
The latest ruling happened in February when the Alabama Supreme Court decided that frozen embryos used in in vitro fertilization have the same rights as children.
Carter Sherman covers reproductive health injustice for the Guardian.