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Can men get pregnant? Is our society going insane?

by R. Albert Mohler Jr.
Post Date:
January 15, 2026

Can men get pregnant? Is our society going insane?

In a Senate hearing yesterday, a display of leftist insanity revealed a culture on the brink of disaster



Dr. Nisha Verma Getty Images / Photo by Samuel Corum


Can men get pregnant? Can you believe such a question would ever be asked in a Senate hearing? Can you imagine that a doctor would refuse to answer the question?

If you have been paying attention to our continuing cultural breakdown, perhaps you can imagine such astounding nonsense. But, thanks to a U.S. Senate hearing yesterday, you don’t even have to use your imagination. You can just watch the insanity unfold.

In a hearing held by the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on the safety of chemical abortion drugs, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., asked Dr. Nisha Verma, an obstetrician, a very simple question: “Can men get pregnant?” But, astoundingly, Dr. Verma would not answer the senator’s question. Sen. Hawley pressed again and again, asking the same straightforward question. Dr. Verma just stonewalled, and stonewalled, and stonewalled.

The exchange is riveting. No work of fiction could match the intensity of the insanity. “Can men get pregnant?,” Hawley asked repeatedly. Dr. Verma responded with a carefully planned obstructionism. “I’m not really sure what the goal of the question” is, she asserted. Sen. Hawley just stated: “The goal is just to establish a biological reality.”


The exchange unfolded over minutes, but the event signals nothing less than the fall of a great civilization. Dr. Verma is a physician, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, and an adjunct associate professor at Emory University. She is also a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a practicing physician. She is also an abortionist, working with Planned Parenthood, and she appeared before the Senate committee as a fellow of Physicians for Reproductive Health, which is straightforwardly pro-abortion.

Dr. Verma was determined not to answer Sen. Hawley’s question, which could easily have been answered by a first-grader. The exchange between the senator and the physician reveals the utter corruption of modern medicine that has been driven by two horrifying agendas—abortion rights and the LGBTQ revolution. In this single exchange, both of these agendas, mutually driven by the Culture of Death, combine into one agonizing lesson in modern insanity. An obstetrician-gynecologist, highly qualified and associated with a major medical school, refused to say whether men can get pregnant. None of this makes the slightest sense until you insert the issues of abortion and transgender ideologies.

The entire abortion rights movement wants to insist that an unborn baby isn’t a baby and the transgender revolution now wants to insist that a man can have a baby. When Dr. Verma referred to “the complex experiences of my patients” and patients “that don’t identify as women,” she was just parroting the transgender and non-binary line.
We need to reveal the insanity for what it is—a determined effort to subvert creation order, biological fact, and moral sanity.

We do need to take notice of one interesting dimension to the physician’s gynecological and moral insanity: She did not have the courage to come out and answer Sen. Hawley’s question directly. If Dr. Verma is so committed to the new gender ideologies that she would make herself look like an absolute idiot before a national audience, why didn’t she just come out and answer Sen. Hawley directly by saying, “Yes, Senator, men can get pregnant.”

The answer is simple and important. The gender ideologies are absolute insanity, and even those who push them know it. Thus, the doctor made herself appear clueless about basic biology because she is committed to a radical worldview, driven by personal autonomy, individual liberation, and identity politics—and now by the cowardly corruption of the medical profession. But there is something far more basic than ideology, whatever its form, and that is reality—biological reality. A human baby is never going to pass through a male pelvis. Never. Not a chance. A man is never going to develop eggs and a woman is never going to develop sperm. Not a chance.

This hearing came just one day after the Supreme Court held oral arguments in two cases about transgender youth and athletics. In cases coming from Idaho and West Virginia, the court is now asked to determine if states have the right to prohibit boys from participating in girls’ athletic events and teams. So far, 27 states have adopted such legislation, protecting the integrity of athletic competitions and team sports for girls. Given the course of the proceedings on Tuesday, it seems likely that a majority of justices will uphold the right of states to adopt such measures. If the Supreme Court rules against the states, female-designated athletics and teams will just disappear.

Both sides recognize that a clear majority of Americans now sees the transgender ideology as nonsense—at least when it comes to putting boys on girls’ teams, sending them into girls’ locker rooms, and having them compete against girls in female-designated events.

The Senate hearing yesterday should serve as an alarm that we are now reaching terminal cultural insanity. We now have some of the nation’s smartest people saying some of the stupidest things ever spoken. We need leaders who will follow the example of Sen. Hawley and press the questions, unceasingly. We need to reveal the insanity for what it is—a determined effort to subvert creation order, biological fact, and moral sanity. We are a culture on the brink of disaster, and in just two days the issues have been made undeniably clear. If this kind of insanity goes on, America is doomed.


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