AOC ripped for ‘having it all’ as MAGA columnist goes after her ‘sad fertility journey’

A MAGA-devotee columnist for the New York Post ripped into Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday for sharing her decision to freeze her eggs with her millions of followers on social media, calling the left-leaning Democratic lawmaker’s documentation of her hormone injections “one of the saddest stories of our time.”

In an op-ed for the conservative tabloid, columnist Miranda Devine dubbed the public-awareness move “AOC’s sad fertility journey” and decried the 36-year-old congresswoman for trying to appear as though she can “have it all.” Devine argues that conservative women know better because they more often choose to step away from pursuing a career to raise children.

According to Devine, AOC “is living out the feminist left’s antiquated mythology of “having it all” — updated with the false promise from the increasingly popular egg freezing industry that you can easily outwit Mother Nature.”

Since opening up about her egg retrieval and freezing process in a series of intimate social media posts, Ocasio-Cortez has become the center of a political debate about motherhood.

Conservative commentators, such as Devine, have argued women should prioritize having and raising children and have dismissed progressive thinkers for using technology to delay motherhood — something more than 40,000 people tried in 2022.

Progressives, including Ocasio-Cortez, have pointed to the conservative criticism as evidence that Republicans are looking for more control over women’s bodies.

“They talk about being pro-family but all the sudden, when a 36-year-old talks about having a baby, they’re mad,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an Instagram video last week.

She added: “How many male members of Congress are they freaking out about having kids after 40? The president had his last kid at 59.”

Earlier this month, Ocasio-Cortez said she would share her journey with egg-freezing , the process of preserving a woman’s unfertilized eggs to be used later. In doing so, the lawmaker has shed light on how insurance companies often do not cover the costly procedure.

The move appeared to coincide with Ocasio-Cortez and her fiance Riley Roberts ending their long engagement. Leigh Ann Caldwell, Puck News’ chief Washington correspondent, revealed that a “reputable Democratic source” told her about 18 months ago that Ocasio-Cortez and her partner Riley Roberts had ended their engagement .

“AOC stopped wearing her engagement ring several months before that,” Caldwell wrote on X last week.