Bette Midler Responds to Backlash Over Her Tweets About “Erasure” of Women

Bette Midler has come under fire on social media after tweeting about the “erasure” of women in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, comments some people have found to be transphobic.

On Sunday, in what appeared to be a reference to the Roe news, Midler

, “WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call us ‘women’ anymore; they call us ‘birthing people’ or…