In a stunning display of radical gender ideology trumping scientific fact, a Democratic witness at a Senate hearing on abortion pills repeatedly refused to acknowledge that only women can get pregnant, drawing sharp rebukes from Republican senators who championed biological truth and women’s protections.
Dr. Nisha Verma, an OB-GYN representing the pro-abortion group Physicians for Reproductive Health, was grilled during Wednesday’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee session. Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) cut straight to the heart of the matter, asking point-blank: “Can men get pregnant?” Verma evaded with leftist jargon, claiming she treats “people with many identities” instead of affirming basic biology.
Undeterred by the obfuscation, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) pressed Verma again on whether biological males can become pregnant. Once more, she sidestepped, dismissing the query as “polarizing.” Hawley fired back with unapologetic clarity: “It is not polarizing to say that women are a biological reality and should be treated and protected as such; that is not polarizing. That is truth.”
The Missouri senator rightly warned that this denial of fundamental distinctions is “deeply corrosive to science, to public trust and yes, to constitutional protections for women as women,” especially in discussions about pregnancy—a process exclusive to biological females. This exchange exposes the dangerous absurdity of progressive activism, where woke narratives erode women’s rights and medical integrity, all while pushing unrestricted access to abortion drugs that conservatives argue endanger lives and undermine family values.
As Republicans continue to defend commonsense protections for the unborn and biological women, such hearings reveal the left’s commitment to ideological fantasy over factual reality.