Senator Josh Hawley Defends All Women in Senate Speech against False Science
FIVE MINUTES JOSH HAWLEY ON CSPAN CAN MEN GET PREGNANT?
YOUTUBE VIDEO OF SENATOR HAWLEY ASKING CAN MEN GET PREGNANT?
Today, in things aliens would be perplexed by if they invaded, Sen. Josh Hawley fought a five-minute battle over whether men can get pregnant. During a hearing on Capitol Hill, he had to repeatedly press a supposed "expert" witness on the subject, and I haven't seen filibustering like this since Democrats tried to stop the Civil Rights Act.
Apparently, it's just a complete mystery. Unsolvable by the best attempts of science.
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Sen. Josh Hawley: "Can men get pregnant?"
Dr. Nisha Verma: "I'm not really sure what the goal of the question is."
Hawley: "The goal is just to establish a biological reality...Can men get pregnant?"
HAWLEY: Since you bring it up, why don't we just start there? Dr. Verma, I wasn't sure I understood your answer to Sen. Moody a moment ago. Do you think men can get pregnant?
VERMA: I hesitated there because I wasn't sure where the conversation was going or what the goal was. I mean, I do take care of patients with many identities. I take care of many women, I take care of people with different identities, so that's where I paused. I wasn't sure where you were going with that.
HAWLEY: Well, the goal was just the truth. Can men get pregnant?
VERMA: Again, the reason I paused there is because I'm not really sure what the goal of the question...
HAWLEY: The goal is just to establish a biological reality. You just said a moment ago that science and evidence should control, not politics. So let's just test that proposition. Can men get pregnant?
VERMA: I take care of many people with many identities, but I take care of many women that can get pregnant. I do take care of people that don't identify as women.
HAWLEY: Can men get pregnant?
VERMA: Again, as I'm saying...
HAWLEY: Let me just remind you of what you testified to a moment ago. Science and evidence should control, not politics. So, can men get pregnant? You're a doctor i think.
VERMA: I totally agree that science and evidence should guide medicine...
HAWLEY: Do science and evidence tell us men can get pregnant? Biological men? Can they get pregnant?
VERMA: I also think yes/no questions like this are a political tool...
HAWLEY: No, yes/no questions are about the truth, doctor. Let's not make a mockery of this proceeding.
That's not even half of the exchange. It just kept going and going, with Dr. Nisha Verma eventually claiming Hawley's question was divisive. In a sense, she's right. Male and female are technical divisions based on biological science, along with the collective knowledge of all of human history. No amount of delusion or cowardice, with the latter clearly being the doctor's motivation to not answer the question, can change that.
Like Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, I'm not a biologist. But I'd suggest that if a doctor refuses to state plainly that men can't get pregnant, that person shouldn't hold a medical license. There was a time when such a statement wouldn't be controversial. It is dangerous for patients and damaging to the public trust for political actors to continue to make a mockery of science like this. You'd think those who are part of that institution would do more to protect it. Instead, those on the left seem content to burn everything to the ground in pursuit of utter nonsense driven by nothing more than deranged ideology.
Hawley would go on to completely school Verma if you watch the rest of the clip, but I'm left with a simple question: What happens when there is another pandemic or major medical event? No one is going to listen to these people when they can't even tell the truth about whether men can get pregnant or not. Why would anyone trust their expertise on anything else? That's why this is all so dangerous.