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LILLEY: Doctor puts politics over biology when asked about men getting pregnant

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American OBGYN would not answer that question while appearing before U.S. Senate committee

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That should be an easy question for anyone to answer. The answer is clearly no; men can’t get pregnant and no amount of wishing it were so will change that.

Yet Dr. Nisha Verma, an obstetrician-gynecologist who is also a lecturer at a major American university, could not or would not answer that question when appearing before a U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday. Verma, a witness called by the Democrats, was asked about the ability of men to get pregnant and didn’t give a clear response when first asked by Sen. Ashley........

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