{"id":993127,"date":"2026-08-10T13:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/993127\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:58:27","slug":"alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-shes-freezing-her-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/993127\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she’s freezing her eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> says she is freezing her eggs as she decides her next political moves ahead of the 2028 presidential election campaign. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a choice that I am making to feel more in control of my life,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez, 36, said on Instagram about her decision regarding her reproductive options.<\/p>\n

The New York congresswoman, a leading figure of Democrats\u2019 progressive left flank, did not say explicitly whether she plans to have children. She said in her social media posts that she was taking a \u201cpolitical risk\u201d in talking so personally about her potential family plans. <\/p>\n

She said later on ABC \u201cThis Week\u201d on Sunday that she has not ruled out running for president or for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrats\u2019 floor leader, Chuck Schumer<\/a> of New York, in 2028. She explained that she wants to normalize conversations about what women face in their professional and personal lives, while also highlighting the policies of President Donald Trump\u2019s administration. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn this political environment, where this administration is denying reproductive care to women across the country, from abortion rights to the ability to carry out a healthy pregnancy, I think it\u2019s important for us as leaders to have these conversations,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s administration opposes abortion rights<\/a>, and the Republican president\u2019s first-term appointees to the Supreme Court provided the margins in the 2022 ruling that struck down the Roe v. Wade decision<\/a> that had established a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy. <\/p>\n

Separately, however, Trump in 2025 signed an executive order<\/a> designed to lower the costs of in vitro fertilization<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez sponsored a Democratic bill in 2022, when the party controlled the House, to codify abortion rights into federal law after the Supreme Court\u2019s abortion decision. <\/p>\n

As part of her weekend announcement, Ocasio-Cortez noted that women \u2014 in politics and other fields \u2014 face different standards and scrutiny about their family status. <\/p>\n

\u201cMen run for office, or frankly they interview for jobs, and people don\u2019t think in the back of their minds, \u2018OK, this guy\u2019s running for office, how old is he? Oh, well, is he going to want to start a family?\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she is freezing her eggs as she decides her next political moves ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":993128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[3789,11338,8120,12785,84,69,57,2055,210,1165,405,403,50,80,369,67,96561,132,68,93],"class_list":["post-993127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-abortion","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-charles-schumer","tag-dc-wire","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-donald-trump","tag-general-news","tag-government-and-politics","tag-health","tag-lifestyle","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-supreme-court-of-the-united-states","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-senate","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-washington-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117071570856084172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}