Rubio responds to attacks after saying that men can't get pregnant

Senator Marco Rubio responded to recent attacks from liberal media outlets after he stressed that men can’t have babies.

During a speech at the Edmund Burke Foundation's National Conservatism Conference, Rubio criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for using the gender-inclusive term “pregnant people” instead of saying “women.” 

"Today, we are subjected to things like, there are such things as pregnant men," Rubio said. "As of almost 10 o'clock today, as far as I know, every single human being that's ever been born was born of a biological woman."

Rubio criticized the “scientists,” “health experts,” and medical agencies that are refusing to admit that only women can get pregnant or insist that men could possibly have babies in the future. 

"And yet we have not just commentators, not just professors, we have the Centers for Disease Control, we have the most prominent public health agency in America, who insists on using the term 'pregnant people,'" Rubio said.

Several left-wing media outlets criticized Rubio’s comments during the conference. In particular, the liberal video journalism outlet The Recount went as far as calling the senator’s words “transphobic.” 

“Locked in a tight race with Rep. Val Demings, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) trots out a transphobic attack on the CDC for using the term "pregnant people," the outlet tweeted along with a video clip of Rubio’s speech. 

Locked in a tight race with Rep. Val Demings, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) trots out a transphobic attack on the CDC for using the term "pregnant people."

"Pregnant men ... I can assure you that's never happened," Rubio says, which is factually inaccurate. pic.twitter.com/EpsHPJ3i8q

— The Recount (@therecount) September 12, 2022

Despite the attack on Rubio, many conservatives and Marco Rubio himself responded to The Recount’s tweets.  

"Well, I don't know what the controversy is. The controversy is between those people and reality: scientific, biological, common-sense reality,” Rubio told Nio Encendio from Maxima 92.5 Tampa Bay. 

"In the history of the world, we have 5,000-odd years of written human history, since those years, never in the history of mankind has a child been born to a man. But it tells you the level of ridiculousness that we have reached in politics, where there are people, supposedly serious people, educated people in positions of power and influence who have a problem with those kinds of pronouncements. 

"Here's the reality: in order to be able to become a state, you have to be biologically born a woman DOT. That's the science. So those people who were always telling us that we had to follow the science on what are climate issues, what was following the science during COVID don't want to follow the science on what is the reality of what it takes for a child to be born."

“Here we have people ideologically from one extreme, I can't even tell you it's left, but it's far left, who have a huge influence on what the Democratic Party is, unfortunately. So all the candidates and all the congressmen and senators and elected officials of the Democratic Party have to follow that,” the senator added.