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Wednesday’s Senate HELP Committee hearing was supposed to be about the safety and regulation of chemical abortion drugs, yet it quickly devolved into a showdown over basic biology when Sen. Josh Hawley asked Dr. Nisha Verma a simple question: can men get pregnant. The exchange, staged in the Dirksen building and captured on video, exposed how identity politics has seeped into even medical testimony meant to protect women’s health.
Dr. Verma, an OB-GYN called by Democrats and a senior advisor to Physicians for Reproductive Health, repeatedly declined to give the yes-or-no answer, instead framing her hesitation around patient identities and the “goal” of the question. That equivocation from a supposed medical expert struck many Americans as astonishing and unmooring — medicine should be grounded in clear science, not evasive political theater.
Hawley reacted exactly as any concerned lawmaker should: he pushed for clarity and insisted the committee establish a biological reality as part of its oversight of drugs that affect women’s bodies. He later underscored the point on social media, bluntly reminding Americans that men do not get pregnant, a message that cut through the confusion and went viral.
This wasn’t a stray gaffe; Senators like Ashley Moody had already posed the same question earlier and the video looped across social feeds because it revealed something bigger — elites will dodge plain facts to avoid upsetting partisan orthodoxies. The hearing’s ostensible topic, the safety of mifepristone and related medications, deserves sober, science-based testimony, not evasions from witnesses who seem more loyal to ideology than patients.
Patriots should be furious that our institutions now reward ambiguity when it suits a narrative. When doctors refuse to acknowledge even the biological basics in public forums, it undermines trust in medicine, endangers women’s health, and hands cultural victory to activists who want to blur fundamental truths for political gain. This is not a debate about compassion; it is about whether our public square will tolerate facts or cede them to fashionable relativism.
Republicans on the committee did the country a service by forcing the moment into the light and refusing to let an evasive answer stand unchallenged. If conservatives want to protect women and preserve common-sense medical standards, we must continue to demand straight answers in hearings, hold witnesses accountable, and ensure policy is rooted in biology and safety — not woke talking points.
Americans who love truth and decency should watch the clip, share it, and insist their representatives stop pretending that confusion equals wisdom. Courageous questioning like Hawley’s reminds the nation that someone must speak plainly for women, for science, and for common sense — and if our leaders won’t, the people will.
