We are in a bizarro world where doctors and lawyers feel compelled to mislead the public on who is a woman |
Can men get pregnant?
Years ago, such a question would have been an insult to the intelligence of anyone above the age of 8.
And yet, Dr. Nisha Verma, a senior advisor to the nonprofit Physicians for Reproductive Health, attempted a rhetorical bob-and-weave when asked about it by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) at a congressional hearing on abortion pills Wednesday.
“I take care of people with many identities,” Verma said before expressing a hestitation about where Hawley was going with his line of questioning.
“The goal is just to establish a biological reality,” Hawley said. “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?”
The doc, who presumably knows a thing or two about the reproductive system in humans, dug in — to the detriment of her reputation.
She called “yes/no questions” political tools and insisted Hawley’s query reduced the issue’s........