Can Men Get Pregnant?

This is a simple question. Any scientific analysis must begin with basic honesty. Nevertheless U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) could not get Dr. Nisha Verma of Physicians for Reproductive Health to answer whether men can get pregnant.

This is part of the conversation (to see a video of the exchange, click here):

Sen. Hawley: “Do you think that men can get pregnant?”Dr. Verma: “I hesitated there because I wasn’t sure where the conversation was going or what the goal was. I do take care of patients with different identities. I take care of many women. I take care of people with different identities, and so that’s where I paused…”

Sen. Hawley: “Well, the goal is just the truth. So, can men get pregnant?”Dr. Verma: “Again, the reason I paused there is I’m not really sure what the—”

Sen. Hawley: “You just said a moment ago that science and evidence should control, not politics. Can men get pregnant?”Dr. Verma: “Yes-no questions like this are a political tool…”

Sen. Hawley: “No — yes-no questions are about the truth, Doctor. Let’s not make a mockery of this proceeding… based on the science, can men get pregnant? That’s a yes or no question.”

Sen. Hawley (later in the exchange):“For the record, it’s women who get pregnant, not men… There’s a difference between biological men and biological women.”

So, why wouldn’t Dr. Verma answer the basic question?

First, her employer might fire her. Second, the political base she advocates for would attack her, possibly even cancel her. But why? This, after all, is not an assault on basic scientific facts and reason for the sheer fun of attacking the scientific method and all practical experience.

The actual answer is, if there no men and no women, but just gender fluidity, then there are no lines to be crossed. Everything is gray. Anything can be reinterpreted without any actual fact finding. This way, only what is useful to an “elite” class matters. If we let them, they can change the rules—even, seemingly, our chromosomes—as it benefits them. These elites (academics, doctors like this one, and more) are then all powerful, as they then would have reinstated a sort of Devine rule, with themselves cast as the gods. In this new reality, they could do what they wish with our capital and labor and with the law. Nothing would be concrete in this Orwellian dystopia. If we agree to these premises, we would become the new Winston Smiths.

And again, manly men (the Heroic Gents) are the main obstacle to this DoubleThink from Ingsoc.

By standing up to this big lie, Sen. Hawley showed himself to be an Heroic Gent, at least on this issue (he is a politician, after all).