Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Slammed by Conservatives for Freezing Her Eggs: ‘It’s a Political Stunt’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being slammed after announcing her plans to freeze her eggs, with several conservative commentators sounding off on social media.

On Saturday, August 8, Ocasio-Cortez, 36, broke the news on her Instagram Story.

“I want to share with you all a decision that is very personal that I have made that has taken me time to consider, weigh and save up for,” she said in the video, per Us Weekly. “And it is of a sensitive matter and a personal matter and usually I keep my private life quite private, but I have made the decision to start freezing my eggs.”

However, while there were several who supported her decision, there was an overwhelmingly negative reaction from well-known conservatives like Laura Loomer, Matt Walsh and more.

“She’ll turn 37 in a couple months. If she got pregnant now, it would technically be a geriatric pregnancy. Instead she’s freezing her eggs,” Walsh, 40, wrote via X on Sunday, August 9. “This desire to start having children late in life is completely baffling to me. I’ll have kids in theirs [sic] 20s by the time I turn 50. AOC apparently wants to have a toddler at that age. Totally backwards and ridiculous.”

Loomer speculated that AOC’s decision was secretly based on her plans to run for president in 2028.

“AOC is freezing her eggs at 36 because she wants to try to ‘relate’ to women when she runs for President in 2028,” Loomer, 33, claimed, adding that Ocasio-Cortez “wants a sob story about infertility when she does decide to run for President.”

The far-right activist continued, “It’s a political stunt.”

Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway also weighed in on the congresswoman’s decision.

“Ladies, get married to a good man as young as you’re able and have your babies and do it naturally,” Hemingway, 51, wrote in a message shared to X. “This is a very sad public performance/display of unnecessarily unwise decision making.”

As Globe previously reported, Ocasio-Cortez opened up about her fertility journey, including the cost to freeze her eggs.

“Cutting straight to the chase, this was one of the things that was most stressful for me, as well, when I was considering doing this — is cost,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a separate video shared to her Instagram Stories on Sunday. “My insurance does not cover one penny of this. It is 100 percent out of pocket. It doesn’t go to my deductible — nothing. It covers nothing.”

AOC said the total cost would ultimately come out to somewhere between $8,000 and $9,000.

In other videos, she shared the reasons that many women might freeze their eggs, including cancer diagnosis (which she said she hasn’t received), issues with conceiving, “ambiguity” about motherhood, waiting to find a partner for raising a child and genetic testing.

“There is so much negative messaging that is directed towards women around our family choices,” the New Yorker said in another video. “No matter what choice you make, if you have kids, when you have kids, whatever, there’s so much negativity. And it is designed to disregulate women, to put us in a place of fear or insecurity so that we are making choices out of that place…. All of these men, oftentimes, who are saying ‘If you haven’t had a kid by 30, you’re done,’ it’s just not supported. Don’t trust these people.”