Dave Rubin Surrogate Pregnancy: Conservatives Should Be Wary

After Dave Rubin tweeted that he and his partner were welcoming two IVF babies later this year, it didn’t take long for some wag to make an Office meme juxtaposing their glossy reveal picture with Pete and Chasten Buttigieg’s infamous “hospital bed” photo. As the line goes, “Corporate needs you to find the difference between these two pictures.”

In fact, there is one significant difference: While Pete and Chasten were holding adopted newborn twins, Dave and David hold ultrasounds of babies in surrogate wombs, carrying their own genes — one matched to each man with a shared egg donor. It’s the culmination of a long and costly process for the couple, which Rubin began documenting in Don’t Burn This Book and describes at more length in a video announcement. As the Twitter reveal went viral, congratulations began streaming in from some surprising sources, including anti-CRT firebrand Chris Rufo, BlazeTV, PragerU, Libs of Tik Tok, and other self-styled “right-wing” media voices. Even Ron DeSantis’s press secretary .

After Dave Rubin tweeted that he and his partner were welcoming two IVF babies later this year, it didn’t take long for some wag to make an Office meme juxtaposing their glossy reveal picture with Pete and Chasten Buttigieg’s infamous “hospital bed” photo. As the line goes, “Corporate needs you to find the difference between these two pictures.”

In fact, there is one significant difference: While Pete and Chasten were holding adopted newborn twins, Dave and David hold ultrasounds of babies in surrogate wombs, carrying their own genes — one matched to each man with a shared egg donor. It’s the culmination of a long and costly process for the couple, which Rubin began documenting in Don’t Burn This Book and describes at more length in a video announcement. As the Twitter reveal went viral, congratulations began streaming in from some surprising sources, including anti-CRT firebrand Chris Rufo, BlazeTV, PragerU, Libs of Tik Tok, and other self-styled “right-wing” media voices. Even Ron DeSantis’s press secretary joined the chorus.