Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) recently filmed herself injecting medication into her stomach, uploaded the video to the internet, and announced that she is preparing to freeze her eggs. The responses from the political right mostly fall into the following categories: 1) “She’ll be 37 soon, so what is she waiting for?,” 2) “Hasn’t she been with the same guy for years, what are they waiting for?,” 3) “There are significant health risks to the baby and to her, given her age, so she shouldn’t be trying to have a kid, let alone waiting to have a kid,” 4) “The odds that she’ll have a successful pregnancy later are not so great, so she’ll be disappointed,” 5) “If she does have a child who then becomes a parent, she’ll be rather old as a grandma, or possibly die before meeting any grandchildren,” 6) “She was........

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