The 'New Yorker' claims women can be 'kind of pregnant' in article questioning pregnancy tests

The New Yorker drew criticism Thursday after promoting an essay that described the binary distinction between being pregnant and not pregnant as "misleading" and said a woman could be "kind of pregnant" or "a little bit pregnant." The essay , "The Unsettling Ambiguity of Early Pregnancy," by Apoorva Tadepalli, examined the uncertainty surrounding early pregnancy tests, miscarriage and viability through the writer's experience with multiple pregnancy losses and her current pregnancy.

The magazine promoted the piece on X by saying at-home tests capture only a moment when an embryo has implanted and that someone could be "kind of pregnant, a little bit pregnant, or almost pregnant, or maybe pregnant" while still testing positive.

Los Angeles County Republican Party Chair Roxanne Hoge, a mother of four, told Fox News Digital that uncertainty over whether a pregnancy will remain viable does not change whether a woman is pregnant.

"As a mother of four and an actual biological woman, I must applaud the author for noticing that women do, in fact, make babies," she said.

"While I sympathize with her on the very sad reality of carrying a pregnancy after a loss, this was a lot of words to try and pretend that a fetus is a clump of cells.

You're either pregnant or you're not." MED SCHOOL DEANS COME UP EMPTY IN TENSE HEARING WHEN ASKED POINT BLANK IF MEN CAN HAVE BABIES: 'RIDICULOUS' Elizabeth Barcohana, America First Policy Institute California Ambassador to the America First Women's initiative, said that the distinction should be between the existence of a pregnancy and whether a woman knows that pregnancy is viable.

"A woman cannot be ‘a little bit pregnant.’ Pregnancy is a physical, biological state that begins when a fertilized embryo implants in the uterus and triggers a chemical hormonal reaction," Barcohana said in a Thursday statement to Fox News Digital.

"This article is not about being pregnant.

It is about a woman’s experience about knowing whether she is carrying a viable healthy pregnancy." Tadepalli described testing positive during five pregnancies and spending periods of those pregnancies unsure whether she would miscarry.

She said those experiences affected her ability to emotionally embrace her current pregnancy, with much of the essay examining what early testing can and cannot tell women about what will happen next.

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My Burbank PAC, told Fox News Digital that she viewed the article’s framing as an attempt to make pregnancy more subjective while arguing that uncertainty in early testing does not change whether a woman is pregnant.