Senator Marco Rubio Calls Out CDC For Term ‘Pregnant People’

MIAMI (FLV) – At the National Conservatism Conference, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio called out the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other public health agencies for using the term ‘pregnant people.’

Rubio said, “Today we are subjected to things like ‘there are such things as pregnant men.'” he continued, “Every single human being that’s ever been born was born of a biological woman and yet we have not just commentators not just professors, we have the Centers for Disease Control, we have the prominent public health agency in America who insist on using the term ‘pregnant people,’ and I can assure you that’s never happened.”

Currently on the CDC website, information and data are using the term ‘pregnant people’ rather than ‘pregnant women.’

In March of 2022, the CDC posted a “Toolkit for Pregnant People and New Parents” on their website.

The Director of the CDC, Dr. Rochelle Walensky was previously called out by Republicans for her Tweet using the phrase “pregnant people” while recommending ‘pregnant people’ getting the COVID-19 vaccine:

Last year, Rubio tweeted an article from the CDC which advised for ‘pregnant people’ to get the COVID-19 vaccine in order to prevent serious illness, deaths, and adverse pregnancy outcomes from COVID-19:

Rubio is facing Democrat U.S. Rep. Val Demings in the race for U.S. Senate in the upcoming November 2022 election.