In a series of extraordinary testimony to a Senate committee on the future of abortion in the US after the dissolve of Roe v Wade, an abortion rights advocate and law professor issued a sharp rebuke to Republican Senator Josh Hawley, who appeared to dismiss that transgender people could become pregnant.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on 12 July, the senator from Missouri took issue with her use of the phrase “people with a capacity for pregnancy”, asking her, “Would that be women?”
