You BELIEVE that mother is an accurate term Others disagree The term is controversial On the other hand everyone can agree that woman is accurate In order to accomidate everyone s belief and thereby be neutral to everyone s point of view we should use the less controversial term It has been argued that being pregnant does not equal being a mother if you and your siblings die does your mother stop being a mother Alternatively do we commonly consider a woman who has undergone an abortion and has no children a mother Whether we agree with this is beside the point We should respect this POV and choose the most neutral language This issue has come up in the past with other users I know AI Alienus had issues with this use It seems to me that people have an argument against the use of mother but no one has an argument against the use of woman so we should obviously pick the one that has no argument right