White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed a doctor who was unable to answer the question of whether men can get pregnant.
“Anyone in their right mind with common sense who’s speaking honestly and candidly will say that men cannot get pregnant,” Leavitt said on Thursday in response to a question from The Daily Signal, “and I think I can attest to that myself.”
Leavitt recently announced that she is pregnant with her second child, a baby girl due in May 2026.
In a viral exchange at a Senate hearing on the abortion pill Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., repeatedly asked a Democrat witness, Dr. Nisha Verma, if men can get pregnant.
Verma, an obstetrician-gynecologist and fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health, would not directly answer the question.
“I hesitated because I wasn’t sure where the conversation was going or what the goal was,” she said. “I mean, I do take care of patients with different identities. I take care of many women. I take care of people with different identities.”
Hawley repeated the question, and Verma said, “I do take care of people that don’t identify as women.”
The senator asked her if “science and evidence” show that men can get pregnant.
“This is about science and evidence,” Hawley said. “And I’m asking you, you know, the United States Supreme Court just heard arguments yesterday at great length on this question. This is not a hypothetical question. This is not theoretical. It affects real people in their real lives, and you’re here as an expert, called by the other side as an expert, and you’ve been telling us that you that you’re a doctor, and you follow the science of the evidence.”
“So I just want to know, based on the science, can men get pregnant?”
“I am a person of science,” Verma said, “and I’m also someone here who’s here to represent the complex experiences of my patients, and I don’t think polarized languages, language or questions serve that goal.”
