Congressman Forces Abortion Advocate to Face the Reality of Abortion

During a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing, Rep. Brandon Gill confronted a pro-abortion law professor in an exchange that cut straight through the polished language of “reproductive healthcare” and forced the room to reckon with what abortion actually is.

 

The hearing was ostensibly focused on the Biden-Harris administration’s use of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. American University Washington College of Law Professor Jessica Waters had been called to testify in defense of the law, framing it as protection for access to “reproductive health services.” But Gill wasn’t interested in the framing, he was interested in the reality underneath it.

He asked Waters: “You’re an advocate for abortion, for abortion policy. What’s your favorite type of abortion?” He then walked through several common abortion procedures in explicit detail, the kind of detail that no one in the realms of advocacy ever uses.

 

Unsurprisingly, Waters refused to answer. She deflected, then pivoted, and finally retreated to talking points about the FACE Act. She said she’s “an advocate for patients having access to the full realm of reproductive healthcare.” When pressed again, she offered only, “I stand by my former testimony.”

 

Thankfully, Gill didn’t let it go. “I wouldn’t want to talk about this either if I were you,” he told her and all those in the chamber, “because it is barbaric and evil.”

 

After the hearing, Gill posted about the exchange, saying that Waters “can’t handle the truth about how abortion kills babies,” and he is 100% correct. Remove the human rights lingo that so often accompanies the pro-abortion talking points, and you’re left with the reality of what abortion does: it kills children.

 

Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz praised Gill’s line of questioning, calling it “a master class in questioning a witness.” He added, “This is extremely grotesque and disturbing, but this is abortion. Thank you @RepBrandonGill for asking the tough questions.”

 

Waters offered no substantive rebuttals to the descriptions of the procedures presented to her. Nor could she, seeing as there aren’t any. Abortion is unjustifiable.

 

That’s the point Gill was making,  and it’s a point worth making repeatedly. Abortion isn’t an abstraction nor it is a philosophical position. Abortion is a procedure and when you describe what actually happens, the euphemisms collapse.

 

What Congressman Gill did is exactly the kind of courageous, truth-telling engagement that Scripture calls believers toward, not in spite of politics, but through it.

 

Proverbs 31:8-9 commands: “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” The unborn child doesn’t have a seat in Congressional hearings, they don’t get to cast a vote and their age prevents them from being able to use their voice.

 

So, when a congressman forces a room to hear the truth about what happens to that child, he is, whether he frames it this way or not, fulfilling a biblical mandate.

 

The prophet Isaiah declared that God holds nations accountable for injustice (Isaiah 10:1-2). The Psalms remind us that God is “a father to the fatherless” (Psalm 68:5) and that He hears the cry of the vulnerable. The early church didn’t retreat from the public square but they turned it upside down (Acts 17:6) through the proclamation of what is true, right, and just.

 

Romans 13 establishes that governing authorities exist to serve as God’s ministers for good; to restrain evil and uphold what is right. That places a weight of responsibility on those who govern, yes. But it also places a responsibility on those who elect them, who pray for them (1 Timothy 2:1-2), who engage in the process.

 

When Christians disengage from government, they don’t make government more neutral but leave it to those with different convictions about what human life is worth.

 

Edmund Burke’s oft-cited warning remains true to this day: the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.

 

The Christian is called to something more than doing nothing. We’re called to be salt and light (Matthew 5:13-14), to be the preservatives against decay, illuminators in darkness not bystanders.

 

What Gill modeled in that hearing room is what salt and light looks like in the halls of government. He didn’t sanitize the conversation. He didn’t protect his colleagues from discomfort. He named what was happening because naming truth, even when it costs something socially, is an act of love: love for the voiceless, love for a culture that has been deceived, and love for the men and women who, given enough honest information, might reconsider what they have been told is simply “healthcare.”

 

Christians who feel it’s better to stay out of politics because it’s “too messy” or “too divisive” should sit with the image of an unborn child who has no one in the room speaking for them. Then they should reconsider.

 

The table of government is being set and the question isn’t whether someone will sit at it, but who.

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