90-Second Read: Penile implant specialist with history of far-right comments led Hantavirus presser

In comments made on a podcast he hosted while running for Alabama state Senate in 2022, Christine questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election. Christine's podcast, called "Common Sense," focused on abortion, Covid restrictions, transgender rights, religion and what he described as "wokeism" in medicine and government. In one episode titled, "When Healthcare is Used Against You," from October 2022, Christine argued the pandemic had been used by the government to control Americans and influence the outcome of the 2020 election. A CNN review of archived podcast episodes, social media posts and radio appearances found that Christine repeatedly framed public health institutions, the federal government and pandemic-era policies as tools used to target conservatives and religious Americans.

Since assuming the post, Christine has led efforts to restrict gender transition care through federal blocks on funding, though the Wall Street Journal reported his private practice office advertised treating transgender people for erectile dysfunction, a claim Christine denied. Christine's account also showed repeated engagement with Vernon Jones, the former Georgia Democratic state representative who switched parties to support Donald Trump and later became a supporter of 2020 election fraud claims. In comments on Facebook and in his podcast, Christine also repeatedly defended Alabama's near-total abortion ban after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. He once hosted a YouTube show called "Erection Connection," a professional YouTube series on erectile dysfunction for fellow urologists.

He's said the Covid pandemic led to a wider government plot to control people, compared the Biden administration to Nazi Germany and suggested the Covid vaccine had little effect in stopping the pandemic. In December 2020, Christine retweeted a call from conservative activist Charlie Kirk to urge Republicans to object to the election results on January 6, 2021. But just because the pregnancy occurs through an act of violence, that doesn't mean the unborn child doesn't have the right to life and we recognize and we believe that another act of violence and an abortion is an act of violence. We recognize and believe that another act of violence isn't going to make things right." "So there's no exclusion for rape and incest.

BREAKING: Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri will OBJECT to the election results on January 6th This is what courage looks like. Now that causes the pro-abortion side of the argument to get really upset that we don't exclude rape and incest. There aren't concentration camps in the United States, but there's no question that conservatives feel threatened.