Conservative pundit Meghan McCain seemingly showed support for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez amid the Democratic politician’s fertility journey.
“As one of the few women left in conservative media who isn’t trying to live a trad wife life or peddle trad wife content — a lot of you sound so weird and mean talking about fertility, pregnancy, post partum,” McCain, 41, tweeted on Monday, August 17.
She then warned Republicans, “You’re scaring the normies. And you’re gonna need them in ‘28.”
While McCain did not directly address Ocasio-Cortez, 36, by name, there has been a heated discourse among conservatives around her recent decision to freeze her eggs. The congresswoman announced on August 8 that she felt “empowered” by making such an important fertility decision.
“I want to share with you all a decision that is very personal that I have made that has taken me time to consider, weigh and save up for,” she said via her Instagram Stories at the time. “And it is of a sensitive matter and a personal matter and usually I keep my private life quite private, but I have made the decision to start freezing my eggs.”
However, many on the right criticized Ocasio-Cortez for her career aspirations, her age and more after learning she was freezing her eggs.
The New York representative addressed the backlash via an Instagram Story Q&A on Wednesday, August 12, when someone encouraged her to “ignore the idiotic Republican men saying dumb things.”
“They hate me ‘cause they ain’t me, and they can’t ever be me,” she wrote alongside a photo of her flashing a smile to the camera.
Criticism from conservatives has continued in recent days, though Ocasio-Cortez assured supporters that she did not regret publicly sharing her fertility journey.
“One question that I received earlier is do I regret coming out publicly about this due to all of the political negativity and the larger political context, and especially this idea that, for me, I’m quite young in my career — especially when it comes to politics — so would the backlash around this have any future impact on my career and do I regret it for those reasons,” Ocasio-Cortez said via her Instagram Story on Saturday, August 15.
“And the answer to that simply is — no. I was born a woman. Period,” she went on. “And I have no control over that, and I wouldn’t want to change that. And the way I feel is any negativity or judgement that I would receive at any point is negativity that I would receive for being a woman whether I shared this information or not, and so I might as well help others.”
The Democratic congresswoman has represented New York City’s 14th congressional district since January 2019.
Us has reached out to Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and McCain for comment.
