People with the capacity for pregnancy... would that be, women?

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I mean... what can you say 👀

What about women who are post menopausal?

Wow! That's a little pen portrait of the script that shuts down via intimidation, humiliation and threats any challenge to an ideology.

She''s so smug and self satisfied while parroting absolute nonsense. The poor kids in her school subject to that.

Some women have the capacity for pregnancy, some women do not, that's never been in question. Men do not however have the capacity for pregnancy, and if you watch clip you'll see that having the audacity to say that means you're a transphobe who promotes violence

What about women who are post menopausal?

So, 'Women with the capacity for pregnancy' would be better wording then.

Wow, with that anti-freedom of speech attitude she's hardly an advocate for pro-choice.

I am post-menopausal. I would be perfectly capable of realising that a reference to "women" in the context of pregnancy does not apply to me.

What's more, I wouldn't consider any violence to have been perpetrated against me.

You can be a trans man and still a woman, if 'woman' is understood to refer to sex (whether in the particular context or just generally). So we can talk about pregnancy exclusively affecting women without offending anyone.

My uterus is broken so clearly doesn't mean me then!

Dear God, make it STOP. There are people on Twitter actually cheering this woman on as if she's doing something intelligent. It is painful. It's dishonest, disingenuous, and it is clearly conning many.

I can't believe the state of academia- she's a Professor. I can't take any more of this warped nonsense.

Wow. That is an amazing bit of DARVO, right there.

I think, from context, the phrase she's looking for is 'pregnant women'.

Good lord! 😳

The poor kids in her school subject to that.

She is a professor at Berkeley. Supposedly a university sort of place...
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My uterus is also broken. It has had the capacity to bring forth children, but no more. I am not menopausal though.
I still find that I am a woman though.

Huh... just realised that when I had my last baby I had my tubes removed, so... I don't have the capacity for pregnancy any longer.

I never knew I was no longer a woman. You learn something new every day!

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When are these fools going to realise what a gift they are to the right?

Totally agree. It's mind-blowing.

This. this this this in the US where I live. They really don't seem to understand what they are handing to the conservative shites who want to ban abortion, gay marriage, contraception etc. But maybe they do and are ok with it? I don't know. I'm baffled with all this tbh. The dialogue about abortion affecting "pregnant people/folks" was unreal.

I can't have children anymore - am I a woman?
My mother (adoptive) could not have children - was she a woman?

More utter nonsense. In future people will look back in history and ridicule our generation as the stupid ones.

Hawley was being combative and disingenuous. People with the capacity for pregnancy is an awkward phrase, yes, but possibly more accurate than women in the current circumstances. Maybe such accuracy is necessary in a legal setting. Yes, she didn't handle it well politically, perhaps, but she's not a PR person or a politician. She's a legal professor. I feel sad that here on a feminist website people are cheering on the powerful, sneering man who set her up.

@Pallisers
this. I live in the US too and can’t believe the left are handing things over to the right like this.

Trans men can get pregnant too.
You may not want to acknowledge them, say they're still women, that's why they can get pregnant but the thing is they are legally recognized as men and can still get pregnant.
They have a duty of care too.
It takes nothing away from me to recognise this. I can still get health care for my needs too.
People seem to be (on purpose, who knows?) misreading what it actually means.

I would interpret that as people deemed to have mental capacity to either become or cause a pregnancy... That type of obscure description makes clear communication impossible.

Where does this leave us unfertiles, with barren wombs? Or those who have had a hysterectomy?

The discussion was about abortion rights.