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I have ever been more over everyone who lives inside the beltway in Washington D.C. because here we are again, like frigging Groundhog Day, unable to answer the question what is a woman? From some surprising sources in the US Supreme Court as well as over on Capitol Hill, doctors refusing to answer the question can men get pregnant? I'm ready to leave it all behind in 2025, frankly. But the good news is so is Gen Z, who is hell bent on making 2026 the new 2016. What the heck this TikTok trend is all about and why I am here for it Today on the Isabel Brow. I still can't quite wrap my head around the fact that it is 2026 like Covid was six years ago. I met my husband five years ago. I was a sophomore in college 10 years ago. I'm just warning you, for all of the younger gen zers out there, life comes at you quick. Like you're sitting there sophomore year of college. You're. You're singing the chain smokers to yourself about how we ain't never getting older. And you do in fact get older very, very, very quickly. You blink and a decade goes by. And yet, despite the fact that it's 2026, I feel like this week we're just living in Groundhog Day. Over and over and over and over and over again here in Washington D.C. because no one again can answer the question what is a woman or just the most basic biological questions about the differences and between men and women. And frankly, I've just had enough. I want to leave this energy behind in 2025, or hopefully even before then in human history, and move so far on in 2026 that this is just a tiny blip in the memory radar that we look back on a decade from now and go, haha. Remember how crazy we were as a society when we literally couldn't answer the question can men get pregnant? Or answer what is a woman? We're breaking that all down today. Plus, there is a huge trend sweeping my social media that I am so nostalgic for in like the best way possible, that 2026 really is 2016 in all of the best ways. And the more I have gone down this rabbit hole, the more I realize maybe 2026 really is a parallel of my 2016 life. Let's start with this though. Josh Hawley is going super viral as a US Senator right now on social media for grilling a doctor, a licensed physician, on the question, can men get pregnant? This was all part of a hearing that happened this week on Capitol Hill, specifically a hearing related to the risks of chemical abortion drugs. This was held by the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, labor and Pensions or the HELP Committee, and they were asking about the abortion pill mifepristone. I'm really, really glad that our support senators are asking all of the right questions about all of this, especially as we get closer to the march for life next week and the whole national conversation is going to be about abortion. But Republican lawmakers right now on Capitol Hill are really strongly advocating for stricter oversight from the fda, the Food and Drug Administration, and potentially instituting new restrictions on access to the abortion pill, which actually is two different pills. If you're unfamiliar with that, this is really just zooming in on one of them called mifepristone. Because what's happening right now is 60 plus percent of abortions in America are happening through abortion drugs. It's not a surgical procedure. You're not going in to see a licensed physician. More often than not, you're actually ordering these pills online. They're coming to your house through the mail, and you are instructed to take them with zero doctor supervision. It is incredibly, incredibly dangerous and putting the lives of so many women, millions of women at risk all over the world every single year. So they had this hearing on Capitol Hill from the HELP Committee, the U.S. senate Committee on Health, Education, labor and Pensions, and Senator Josh Hawley starts grilling a doctor who had been invited to the committee on just basic biological questions. And this exchange is so beyond telling to me about where we are as a society when it comes to these types of conversations. The fact that a licensed physician. And not just any licensed physician, but an ob gyn, the people responsible for overseeing your pregnancy, childbirth, delivery, women's health in general. The fact that she refuses to answer the question, can men get pregnant? Speaks volumes about where we are as a society. Listen to this, if you haven't already.
