Hawley and University of California, Berkeley professor Khiara Bridges went viral over an exchange during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. Bridges referred to “people with the capacity for pregnancy,” a long-winded way of saying “women,” as Hawley pointed out. But Bridges insisted that “trans men” and “nonbinary people” also can get pregnant.
— Townhall.com July 12, 2022 The Washington Post's takeaway from this exchange was that “the Missouri Republican refused to acknowledge that some transgender men can get pregnant.” Mariana Alfaro, a “reporter on the breaking political news team,” then wrote that “some experts on gender and reproductive rights” use terms such as “people with a capacity for pregnancy” when talking about abortion because “not only cisgender women have the ability for pregnancy.
washingtonpost ZacharyFaria The only way a person can get pregnant is if they have a uterus that is the sack which holds the baby, now do men have uteruses? no they don't. Can Dr Kevorkian make a uterus for a man? I wouldn't put it past them as long as there's more than a buck to be made.
washingtonpost ZacharyFaria I would say hostages.