Last week, U.S. Republican Rep. Brandon Gill (TX- 26) made headlines for asking an abortion advocate, “What’s your favorite type of abortion?”
The witness, despite 25 years of professional experience in abortion policy as a “nationally recognized expert in U.S. reproductive rights laws” at American University, could not answer the question. All she mustered was several iterations of the same reply: “I am an advocate of reproductive healthcare.”
More than that, she grew visibly uncomfortable as Congressman Gill described the details of several abortion procedures. He spared no details about what a baby experiences during an abortion — dismemberment, brain hemorrhaging, crushed skulls, all of it. When the witness could not look him in the eye with a reply, he hit the nail on the head: “I wouldn’t want to talk about this if I were you either, because abortion is barbaric and evil.”
This exchange, now approaching 10 million views on X, is the blueprint for winning the abortion debate: truth-telling, no matter how hard the truth is. For decades, abortion advocates have sanitized the gruesome reality of abortion with attractive euphemisms like “reproductive healthcare,” “bodily autonomy,” “freedom,” and “choice.” But when faced with the truth, it becomes clear that pro-abortion rhetoric is nothing more than a game of semantics.
