‘Bold and ethical’: doctors on AOC’s egg-freezing journey - and Maga’s criticisms of it

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/alaina-demopoulos· Aug 12, 2026 · 10:00 AM UTC ·6 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 5 views

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‘Don’t be weird about this even though I know all of you will be,’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Instagram while announcing she was freezing her eggs. Photograph: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreen‘Don’t be weird about this even though I know all of you will be,’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Instagram while announcing she was freezing her eggs. She once described herself as “unapologetically pro-life” yet sounded decidedly anti-reproductive health, writing on X that Ocasio-Cortez is “glamorizing the lie that women can have it all.

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▪‘Don’t be weird about this even though I know all of you will be,’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Instagram while announcing she was freezing her eggs.
▪Photograph: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreen‘Don’t be weird about this even though I know all of you will be,’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Instagram while announcing she was freezing her eggs.
▪She once described herself as “unapologetically pro-life” yet sounded decidedly anti-reproductive health, writing on X that Ocasio-Cortez is “glamorizing the lie that women can have it all.

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‘Don’t be weird about this even though I know all of you will be,’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Instagram while announcing she was freezing her eggs. Photograph: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreen‘Don’t be weird about this even though I know all of you will be,’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Instagram while announcing she was freezing her eggs. Photograph: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty ImagesAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez‘Bold and ethical’: doctors on AOC’s egg-freezing journey - and Maga’s criticisms of itIn documenting the process, AOC is defying the right’s pronatalist narratives about motherhood and women’s careersAlaina DemopoulosWed 12 Aug 2026 06.00 EDTLast modified on Wed 12 Aug 2026 06.01 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleOn Sunday,…

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