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   FIRST ON FOX: Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley says the   
   Democrats "have lost their minds" after his tense exchange with   
   a progressive pro-choice California law professor went viral.   
      
   Hawley torched the Democrats in an exclusive statement to Fox   
   News Digital, calling the party "extremists" and saying the   
   Democrats’ descent into madness is on display for the whole   
   country.   
      
   "The Democrats have become such extremists. Now their official   
   line is men can get pregnant — and if you disagree, you’re   
   violent," Hawley said on Tuesday after the exchange went viral   
   online. "They have lost their minds and the whole country can   
   see it."   
      
   On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the   
   impact of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade   
   and sent the subject of abortion back to be decided at the state   
   level.   
      
   The University of California at Berkeley law professor Khiara   
   Bridges, a pro-choice witness on a panel before the Senate,   
   accused Hawley of endangering transgender Americans by asking if   
   only women can get pregnant.   
      
   Conservative Twitter users praised Hawley’s questioning while   
   slamming Bridges over the exchange.   
      
   During the hearing, Hawley asked Bridges about her use of the   
   phrase "people with the capacity for pregnancy" and if she meant   
   "women" by it.   
      
   In response, Bridges tore off her mask and said that many "cis-   
   women have the capacity for pregnancy" and that "many cis-women"   
   are not able to get pregnant.   
      
   "There are also trans-men who are capable of pregnancy as well   
   as non-binary people who are capable of pregnancy," Bridges   
   continued.   
      
   "So this isn’t really a women’s rights issue, it’s a what?"   
   Hawley retorted. Bridges responded that people can "recognize   
   this impacts women while also recognizing that it impacts other   
   groups."   
      
   "So, your view is that the core of this right then is about   
   what?" Hawley asked.   
      
   Bridges called Hawley’s questions "transphobic" and claimed,   
   without evidence, that his questions "open up trans people to   
   violence by not recognizing them."   
      
   "Wow, you’re saying that I’m opening up people to violence by   
   asking whether or not women are the folks who can have   
   pregnancies?" Hawley responded.   
      
   The UC Berkley law professor did not answer Hawley’s question,   
   instead pointing to a suicide attempt statistic for transgender   
   Americans and claiming the senator was "denying trans people   
   exist."   
      
   "I’m denying trans people exist by asking you if you’re talking   
   about women having pregnancies?" Hawley asked as Bridges barked   
   "are you" over his question.   
      
   "Do you believe that men can get pregnant?" Bridges asked the   
   senator.   
      
   Hawley said no, prompting Bridges to claim the Missouri senator   
   was "denying trans people exist."   
      
   "And that leads to violence? Is this how you run your   
   classroom?" Hawley responded, asking if Bridges’ students were   
   allowed to question her in class.   
      
   "Or are they also treated like this?" Hawley asked, motioning   
   between the two of them. "Where they’re told that they are   
   opening up people to violence by questioning?"   
      
   "Oh we have a good time in my class, you should join," Bridges   
   retorted, with Hawley quipping he bets it’s a good time and that   
   he would "learn a lot."   
      
   The pair’s exchange came after Bridges responded to Texas   
   Republican Senator John Cornyn’s questions on Black babies being   
   aborted with multiple references to "people with the capacity   
   for pregnancy."   
      
   Bridges said that she loves "Black people with the capacity for   
   pregnancy" but would not say if she believed an unborn child has   
   value.   
      
   In fact, the law professor dodged Cornyn’s question on whether   
   an unborn child has value by talking about abortion access for   
   "people with the capacity for pregnancy" and, when called out by   
   the senator on it, Bridges said that she was "answering a   
   question that is more interesting to me."   
      
   https://www.yahoo.com/news/josh-hawley-says-democrats-apos-   
      
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