Doctor refuses to acknowledge basic biological reality: ‘Can men get pregnant?’
During a Senate hearing titled Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Dr. Nisha Verma — where he attempted to “establish a biological reality.”
Verma, a medical doctor, was incapable of doing so.
“I wasn’t sure I understood your answer to Senator Moody a moment ago. Do you think that men can get pregnant?” Hawley asked 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 different identities. I take care of many women. I take care of people with different identities. And so that’s where I paused, I think,” she answered.
“Well the goal is the truth. So can men get pregnant?” Hawley pressed further.
“Again the reason I paused there is I’m not really sure what the goal of the question —” she continued, before Hawley interjected, “The goal is just to establish a biological reality.”
The pair went back and forth, with the leftist doctor claiming he was just being “polarizing.”
“I’m not trying to be polarizing. I think it is extraordinary that we are here in a hearing about science and about women, and for the record, it’s women who get pregnant, not men. We are here about the safety of women, and the science that shows that this abortion drug causes adverse health events in 11% of cases,” Hawley responded.
“There’s a difference between biological men and biological women. I just don’t know how we can take you seriously and your claims to be a person of science if you won’t level with this on this basic issue. I thought we were past all of this,” he continued.
“I think it’s extraordinary that you would sit here and advance a political agenda that has been thoroughly discredited and rejected by the American people in this forum. And I’m glad we had this exchange because it is exceptionally clarifying,” he said, adding, “It is also in many ways quite depressing.”
While BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is grateful for Hawley’s common sense, she’s also horrified that a doctor is still refusing to acknowledge such basic biological reality.
“This woman is going into medical school, and she is teaching young people that ‘I am a person of science, and I represent all of the complex realities of my patients, and I don’t want to answer your very simple question,’” Gonzales comments.
“These are the people in charge of your health care. These are the people in charge of setting policies,” she says, adding, “These people are still delusional.”
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‘There will be charges’: Harmeet Dhillon assures Glenn Beck church-stormers will face justice as Minnesota lets chaos reign
Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon criticized Minnesota’s Democrat leadership for failing to enforce state law and arrest protesters who stormed into a local church over the weekend.
Dhillon joined Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program” on Monday morning to address the incident, in which radicals disrupted a Christian church in the middle of a service.
‘We will not let this happen to another church in the United States.’
“We don’t want to prejudge, but I think it is fair to say that I saw multiple federal criminal incidents yesterday, and there will be charges,” she told Beck.
Dhillon explained that as soon as she learned about the situation at Cities Church, she immediately activated prosecutors and sent FBI agents to investigate to determine whether the left-wing radicals had violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act or committed any related criminal offenses, including potential conspiracy charges and material support.
“It’s only a question of when we can get a judge to sign off on arrest warrants and exactly what the charges would be,” Dhillon stated, noting that the federal judges have to be in Minnesota. “This isn’t Texas, and we aren’t getting exactly rapid-fire support for charges there on the pace we would love.”
Dhillon criticized local leaders for failing to enforce the state’s laws by refusing to arrest any of the protesters.
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“There could have been arrests yesterday if Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, enforced his own laws, and Mary Moriarty, the district attorney of Hennepin County, enforced her own laws,” she remarked.
The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsed both Ellison and Moriarty for their respective re-election campaigns in 2022.
Dhillon explained to Beck that the federal government “has to jump through some additional hurdles.”
Beck asked Dhillon whether former CNN journalist Don Lemon violated any laws by following the protesters into the church. Dhillon responded that she would reserve comment on that situation but proposed a hypothetical involving “a podcaster, once a news anchor.”
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Harmeet Dhillon. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images
A privately owned house of worship is not a public forum for protest in the U.S., she stated, adding that charges would likely be imposed in stages.
“We will not let this happen to another church in the United States. It is un-American, unacceptable, and there is a zero-tolerance policy for it at this DOJ,” Dhillon concluded.
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5-year-old boy weighed about 19 pounds at time of death, cops say: ‘Probably the worst case of child neglect I’ve seen’
Around 9 p.m. on New Year’s Day, deputies with the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana responded to a reported medical emergency involving a juvenile at a gas station in Geismar, the sheriff’s office said. Geismar is about 30 minutes southeast of Baton Rouge.
Upon arrival, deputies found 5-year-old Marley Perilloux unresponsive, officials said.
‘People be treating their pets almost better than that.’
Detectives told WAFB-TV the boy’s parents put him in a car and called 911 in search of help, and deputies met them at the gas station off Highway 73.
Deputies immediately began performing CPR on the boy while awaiting emergency services, the sheriff’s office said.
Marley was transported to an area hospital while deputies and other first responders continued life-saving measures, officials said.
Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Col. Donald Capelo told WAFB that medical professionals at the hospital “continued to work on the child for about 40, 45 minutes before the child just passed away.”
Detectives with the juvenile unit of the sheriff’s office opened an investigation following reports of apparent injuries on the juvenile and additional concerns of child neglect, including severe malnourishment, the sheriff’s office said.
During their investigation, detectives executed a search warrant at the home where Marley lived with his parents, 33-year-old Marlon Perilloux and 27-year-old Raynisa Young, officials said.
Detectives reported the home’s interior was in poor condition and barely livable due to Perilloux and Young’s negligence, officials said.
Detectives interviewed Perilloux and Young and learned that both parents failed to ensure proper hygiene, feeding, and medical care for Marley, who weighed about 19 pounds at the time of death, officials said.
Detectives arrested Perilloux and Young for negligent homicide, second-degree cruelty to juveniles, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and illegal carrying of weapons, the sheriff’s office said.
Both were transported to the Ascension Parish Jail with no bond, officials said, adding that additional or upgraded charges are pending.
In addition, investigators said Marley was bedridden and apparently never left the house, WAFB reported.
“This is probably the worst case of child neglect I’ve seen in my 34 years of law enforcement,” Capelo told the station. “To put it in perspective, when the coroners come out, there are body bags for adults, and there are body bags for infants. And this child, 5 years old, fit in an infant body bag.”
Cellphone video WAFB obtained shows the Geismar apartment where the family of six lived in squalor, the station said, adding that the unit was filled with trash, debris, and mattresses on the floor.
Neighbors told the station the news stunned them, and they had no idea what was happening inside the home.
“People be treating their pets almost better than that,” neighbor Calvin Lewis told WAFB.
Lewis added to the station that neighbors gladly would have helped if the family had asked.
“We’re a neighborhood where somebody needs something, that we have something going on,” Lewis told WAFB. “You’re more than welcome to come get a plate or, you know, any way we can help out.”
The state removed the three other children from the home, the station said.
The district attorney told WAFB that he will see if any other adults knew about the child’s condition — and if they did, they also could face charges.
An autopsy is pending, the station said, adding that investigators said it’s unclear when the child last ate.
Capelo urged parents dealing with tough times to seek help, WAFB noted.
“They need to seek help, whether it be through a family member, whether it be through [the Department of Children & Family Services], a division of the state, but you have to seek help,” he told the station. “You have to do whatever you can and whatever means you have to just take care of your children.”
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