Josh Hawley’s Senate clash with doctor goes viral over pregnancy question

A heated exchange from a US Senate hearing has spread rapidly on social media after Republican Senator Josh Hawley repeatedly pressed a physician witness with a blunt question about pregnancy.

The article says the moment unfolded during a hearing focused on abortion-related drugs, where Dr Nisha Verman, identified as a representative of Physicians for Reproductive Health, was questioned by Hawley. He repeatedly asked, “Can men get pregnant?” while she resisted giving a simple yes-or-no answer, arguing that binary questions are often used to steer political messaging.

When Hawley reframed the question to “biological men,” he said he was trying to establish what he called basic truth and stressed that the issue affects real people and real policy choices. The doctor, the report adds, accused the senator of oversimplifying a complex topic and of mixing discussions of sex and gender.

Geo.tv notes that online responses have been divided, with some users criticising the witness for not answering directly and others faulting the senator for narrowing a broader debate into a confrontation-style exchange.