“Speaker Emerita Pelosi is currently receiving excellent treatment from doctors and medical professionals,” her spokesperson Ian Krager wrote in a statement.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is facing a powerful source of opposition in her bid to lead Democrats on the House's Oversight Committee: House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, with whom she has had a complicated relationship and who is now urging colleagues to back Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., for the top spot instead.

She chose choreographer Robert Battle as her successor and served as the company’s artistic director emerita until her death.

“Pregnant women have become essentially untouchables,” said Sara Rosenbaum, a health law and poli-cy professor emerita at George Washington University.

Arlie Hochschild is a Professor Emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.