Two things occurred to me during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing Wednesday on chemical abortion drugs, where I was a witness. The first was that there were several elephants in the room. The second was that numerous fallacies were propped up among the elephants.
The first elephant was the humanity of the unborn child. This elephant was studiously avoided by the minority’s witness, Dr. Nisha Verma, and by the minority’s committee members, perhaps because the humanity of the embryo, the fetus, and the unborn child is a scientific fact even among those who are pro-abortion. Alan F. Guttmacher, former president of Planned Parenthood, stated in his book Life in the Making, “We of today know that man is born of sexual union; that he starts life as an embryo within the body of the female . . . This all seems so simple and evident to us that it is difficult to picture a time when it was not part of the common knowledge.” Steve Jacobs, a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago, surveyed 5,502 biologists from about 2016–2018. Almost 75 percent of those who identified as pro-choice said that human life begins at the moment of fertilization.
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