A Texas Republican congressman put a pro-abortion witness through something she clearly didn’t want to sit through Tuesday: a line-by-line rundown of exactly what abortion procedures look like.
Rep. Brandon Gill, who represents Texas’s 26th District, was questioning American University scholar Jessica Waters at a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing when he asked, plainly: “You’re an advocate for abortion, for abortion policy. What’s your favorite type of abortion?”
Waters wouldn’t answer. “I am an advocate for patients having access to the full realm of reproductive healthcare,” she said.
He started with suction abortion. Pressure 29 times stronger than a household vacuum, he explained, tears the baby’s body apart and pulls it through a hose into a container.
“I stand by my former testimony,” Waters said.
He moved to dilation and curettage. A sharp looped knife goes into the uterus. The baby is cut and extracted. “You don’t want to talk about abortion itself,” Gill said. “Why is that?”
“I would prefer to talk about the reason that the committee called the hearings,” Waters replied.
Gill kept going. Dilation and evacuation: forceps grip and twist the baby to pull it apart. “If the head is too large, it must be crushed to remove it,” Gill said. Waters redirected again.
The last one on Gill’s list was a saline injection abortion. A 20 percent salt solution is injected into the amniotic fluid. The baby’s skin burns. It ingests the solution and dies from salt poisoning, dehydration, and brain hemorrhage.
Waters passed again.
“I wouldn’t want to talk about this either, if I were you, because it is barbaric and evil,” Gill said.
The hearing was about something specific: the Biden administration’s use of the FACE Act to come after pro-life protesters. The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act lets the federal government bring criminal charges against anyone who blocks access to an abortion facility. Under Biden, DOJ used it heavily against people who staged peaceful sit-ins outside clinics, with some facing years in prison.
Emails released earlier this month showed Biden officials coordinating directly with abortion advocacy groups to track and target pro-lifers for prosecution. The documents laid out a partnership that went well beyond what most people expected from the Justice Department.
