Senator Josh Hawley cornered Dr. Nisha Verma during a Senate HELP Committee hearing with a single, straightforward question: can men get pregnant? The exchange, which unfolded at a hearing on chemical abortion drugs, quickly went viral because the medical witness repeatedly refused a simple yes-or-no answer, opting instead for evasions about identity and complexity.
Verma, an OB-GYN and senior advisor with Physicians for Reproductive Health, kept pivoting away from the biological question, saying she wasn’t sure where the line of questioning was going and emphasizing that she treats patients with many identities. Hawley pressed that if medicine truly serves science and evidence over politics, the basic biological reality should be acknowledged—yet the witness ducked the direct reply again and again.
That evasiveness is not an academic quibble; it’s proof of a wider rot in institutions that should be defending objective truth. Conservatives watched in frustration as the Left’s rhetoric about “science” and “evidence” collapses into identity dogma whenever inconvenient facts arise, exposing a dangerous double standard that threatens medical credibility.
This moment came during a hearing focused on the safety of chemical abortion drugs like mifepristone, a topic already fraught with partisan pressure and real public-health stakes. While the Left screams about access and autonomy, they shrug off clear biological distinctions when it suits their narrative, and Americans deserve experts who speak plainly about medicine, not ideologues who hide behind weasel words.
Republican lawmakers seized the viral clip, with Hawley and others posting the exchange to make the point that common-sense biology still matters, and conservative outlets amplified the moment as an example of woke medicine run amok. This isn’t about humiliating a single witness; it’s about reclaiming the language of science from activists who weaponize confusion to advance an agenda.
Americans who care about truth, women’s health, and the safety of our children should be furious that our medical discussions are being hijacked by ideology. It’s time to demand accountability, insist on clear answers from supposed experts, and elect leaders who will stand up for biology and common sense rather than bow to the latest cultural fad.
