Things got extremely funny in the Senate after a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) hearing titled “Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs” went off the rails on Wednesday, January 14, with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) absolutely roasting a witness who refused to say whether men can get pregnant.
For reference, the hearing was supposed to be about the potential dangers of chemical abortion drugs, but what went viral online was not anything really having to do with that, but rather a sharp exchange between Sen. Hawley, Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL), and OB-GYN Dr. Nisha Verma, over whether men could get pregnant.
The spat began when Sen. Moody, seemingly sensing an opportunity to make the leftist testifying before the hearing look utterly ridiculous, asked her whether men could get pregnant. The doctor, not wanting to answer the question, simply said that she treats patients of a number of identities, and added that she wasn’t sure where the questions were headed.
That’s what Hawley jumped in and pressed Dr. Verma to get to the point and answer the seemingly quite simple to answer question about pregnancy and biology that any normal person would know. He said, as the woke witness squirmed, “Well, the goal is, is the truth. Can men get pregnant?”
Verma, pressing back on Hawley in the same way she tried to resist the question from Moody, said, intransigently, “I’m not sure what the goal of the question is.” Snapping back about reality and her refusal to acknowledge it, Hawley said, “The goal is to establish a biological reality. Can men get pregnant?”
Verma, not giving anything approaching a straight answer, said, “I take care of people with many identities.” Pressing her again, he asked, “Can men get pregnant?” Then, as the woke doctor started trying to bloviate and dodge the question yet again, Hawley snapped, “You said science and evidence should control. Can men get pregnant? You’re a doctor, I think.”
Pushing back with vague commentary about science, she then said, “Science and evidence should guide medicine.” Hawley, frustrated, said, “Do science and evidence tell us that men can get pregnant?” Rounding out the exchange by still refusing to answer, Dr. Verma said, “I think yes-no questions like this are a political tool.”
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Watch the incident here:
Praising Hawley after the exchange, conservative public figure Ryan T. Anderson said, “Thank you
@HawleyMO for exposing the intellectual bankruptcy of the expert witness for the Democrats who couldn’t answer the question of whether men can get pregnant. ‘I don’t know how we can take you seriously … and your claims to be a person of science…’ Spot on.”
Hawley commented on the matter during a Fox News appearance after the hearing, saying, “Let’s not forget just yesterday Democrats were at the Supreme Court of the United States arguing with a straight face that men ought to be able to play in women’s sports. In fact they were arguing that men have a constitutional right to play in women’s sports…These people are just out of control and we’ve got to call them out on it.”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video