Can Men Get Pregnant? Let’s Stop Playing Word Games

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I recently watched Senator Josh Hawley ask Dr. Nisha Verma a simple question during a Senate hearing: “Can men get pregnant?” Her inability to give a straightforward answer frustrated me deeply. We have reached a point where medical professionals cannot state basic biological facts without hesitation, and frankly, it is getting ridiculous.

Let me be clear from the start: men cannot get pregnant. This is not a complicated question, despite what some would have you believe. The attempt to make it complicated represents a fundamental confusion between biological reality and social identity, and this confusion has real consequences for medical clarity, women’s rights, and honest public discourse.

The Biology Is Not Debatable

When we talk about pregnancy, we are discussing a biological process that requires specific reproductive anatomy. Pregnancy requires a uterus, ovaries, and the hormonal environment of the female reproductive system. These organs exist to produce eggs and gestate offspring. This is not opinion or ideology. This is observable, measurable biological fact.

In human reproduction, we have what biologists call anisogamy — the production of two distinct types of reproductive cells. Males produce small, motile gametes called sperm. Females produce large, stationary gametes called eggs. There is no third gamete. There is no middle ground in human reproduction. A person who becomes pregnant is, by definition, operating…