‘Can Men Get Pregnant?’: Reproductive Doctor Refuses To Answer Senator’s Simple Question

During a Senate hearing on Wednesday, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist refused to say that a man can’t get pregnant.

The exchange between Dr. Nisha Verma and Missouri Senator Josh Hawley took place during the “Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs” Senate Hearing. Dr. Verma was the witness Democrats brought in to represent their side of the hearing.

Senator Hawley repeatedly asked Dr. Verma throughout the exchange, “Can men get pregnant?”

“I’m not really sure what the goal of the question is,” Dr. Verma said.

Senator Hawley’s question followed Senator Ashley Moody’s similar question to Dr. Verma. The reproductive doctor refused to answer Moody as well. Moody asked the question to point out that men were getting hold of the abortion pill.

Hawley reminded Dr. Verma that the goal of this point-blank question was to get to the truth.

“The goal is just to establish a biological reality,” Hawley said. “Can men get pregnant?”

The Emory physician again refused to answer the question. Instead, she told the senator she takes care of people with many “identities.”

“I do take care of people that don’t identify as women,” she said while still refusing to say if men get pregnant.

Dr. Verma, who was speaking in favor of mifepristone, the abortion drug up for debate, urged the committee to follow the science and evidence on the medication, but couldn’t speak to the science behind a man’s reproductive limitations.

“I think you’re trying to reduce the complexity of a lot of people’s lives,” Dr. Verma said to Sen. Hawley.

Neither side budged from their beliefs during the exchange. In an effort to ignore the science and Hawley’s question, Dr. Verma said the question of whether men can get pregnant was being asked as a “political tool.”

“Yes/no questions like this are a political tool.” Dr. Verma argued. “I would be more than happy to have a conversation with you that is not coming from a place of trying to be polarized.”

“It is not polarizing to say that women are a biological reality and should be treated and protected as such,” Hawley said. “That is not polarizing, that is [the] truth.”

Hawley appeared alarmed by the doctor’s lack of reproductive knowledge.

“We are here in a hearing about science, and about women and, for the record, it’s women who get pregnant, not men,” Hawley told the doctor. “And yet you won’t even acknowledge the basic reality that biological men don’t get pregnant. There is a difference between biological men and biological women. I don’t know how we can take you seriously and your claims to be a person of science if you won’t level with us on this basic issue. I thought we were past all of this.”

Verma claimed to be a “person of science” and continued to argue that “polarized” language and questions “don’t serve the American people.”

Dr. Verma is not the first one in Washington, D.C. to challenge basic biology this week.

During a Supreme Court hearing on two cases involving men in women’s sports, the lawyer representing the trans-identifying athlete couldn’t define the word “sex” in regard to biology when Justice Samuel Alito asked her to.

“We do not have a definition for the court,” Kathleen Hartnett said.

By definition, an obstetrician-gynecologist specializes in women’s reproductive health.

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Hawley didn’t get his answer, but got the final word.

“I am glad we had this exchange because it’s exceptionally clarifying. It is also in many ways quite depressing,” Hawley said.