After a year of hearing her prattle on about following and listening to "the science," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was publicly undressed on Thursday afternoon.
After a year of seeing her pose for as many Black Lives Matter and LGBT Pride pictures as possible, all with the expressed intent of appearing a champion of human rights, Pelosi was unceremoniously exposed as a fraud.
And all it took was a simple question from an intern:
Pelosi: "Yes, ma'am."
Johnson: "Thank you Madam Speaker. I am with CNSNews. The Supreme Court this fall will review a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Is an unborn baby at 15 weeks a human being?"
Pelosi: "Let me just say that I'm a big supporter of Roe vs. Wade. I am a mother of five children in six years. I think I have some standing on this issue as to respecting a woman's right to choose."
Johnson: "Is it a human being?"
Pelosi: (calls on a different reporter)
First of all, congratulations are in order for the reporter, Ms. Johnson, who though she may only be the "Capitol Hill Reporting Intern" at the Media Research Center, demonstrated a better grasp on the meaningful questions journalists should be asking leading lawmakers and agenda setters in D.C. than the entire correspondent crews across the whole of mainstream media.
The question was pertinent and timely given the upcoming Supreme Court ruling on the 15-week abortion ban in Mississippi. Pelosi should be informed about the topic and prepared with a substantive answer to the fundamental question of the case. Besides, it's not that complicated of a question.
Pelosi's clunky dodge of Johnson's query demonstrated precisely why the Speaker should be able to answer the question with specificity. She affirms she is a "big supporter of Roe v. Wade," and that she has "standing" on the issue. Certainly anyone who makes claims like that should be capable of answering the only question that really matters in the abortion debate: what is conceived in the womb?
Is that living being a human? No one, not even the most aggressive abortion proponent, debates that the object in the womb is alive, after all. The fact that we speak so often in our political dialogue about the issue of abortion but so rarely about this fundamental, pivotal, seemingly most central and decisive question says so much about how comically unserious the entire debate has become.
The Roe v. Wade majority opinion, authored by Justice Harry Blackmun, acknowledges the centrality of the question:
"If this suggestion (that the being in the womb is a living human) is established, the case (for abortion rights), of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the (14th) Amendment," the opinion states.
The inconvenient reality for those who defend the macabre ritual of abortion, like Pelosi, is that science has established such a suggestion. What was perhaps unknown in 1973 is certainly known today. By the author of Roe's own opinion, the case for abortion rights has already collapsed.
That is why its advocates behave like cowards. Before Pelosi's "I have standing" air biscuit, there was Barack Obama's "Answering that question (when a baby gets human rights) with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade."
No, it wasn't. Just like Pelosi, Obama knew the answer, but also knew the answer wasn't something he could admit.
And they continue to get away with the nauseating charade because they can confidently expect that the media outlets most consumed by the masses will never ask them those questions, and never replay or air it when others do.
That's why when they receive an intellectual and moral de-pantsing like just happened to Ms. Pelosi, it's incumbent upon people of science and defenders of human rights to spread the word.
