Republican Senator Josh Hawley Questions Dr. Verma on Male Pregnancy

Senate Hearing on Abortion Pills

• 📌 During a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on abortion pills, Senator Josh Hawley questioned Dr. Verma.
• 🎯 Hawley's line of questioning focused on establishing biological realities, beginning with the question: "Is there a difference between boys and girls?"

The Question of Male Pregnancy

• ❓ Senator Hawley directly asked Dr. Verma, "Do you think that men can get pregnant?"
• 💡 Dr. Verma hesitated, stating she wasn't sure of the goal of the question and that she takes care of patients with different identities.
• 🗣️ Hawley pressed, emphasizing the goal was to establish biological reality and test the proposition that science should control, not politics.

Refusal to Define Biological Sex

• ⚠️ Dr. Verma's repeated refusal to directly answer whether men can get pregnant was criticized by Hawley as corrosive to science, public trust, and constitutional protections for women.
• ✅ Ultimately, when directly asked again, Dr. Verma answered, "Uh, no."
• 🎯 Hawley concluded that a simple, direct answer was all that was needed.