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?-