It's Thursday, January 15, 2006. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Before I say anything else, I want you to hear something said in a Senate hearing yesterday.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Since you bring it up,

why don't we to start there? Dr. Verma, I wasn't sure I understood your answer to Senator Moody a moment

ago. Do you think that men can get pregnant? I hesitated there because I wasn't sure where the

conversation was going or what the goal was. I mean, I do take care of patients

with different identities. I take care of many women. I take care of people with different identities.

And so that's where I paused. I think I wasn't sure where you were going with that.

Well, the goal is just the truth. So can men get pregnant? Again, the reason I paused there is I'm not really sure what the goal of the question is.

The goal is to establish a biological reality. You just said a moment ago that science and

evidence should control, not politics. So let's just test that proposition. Can men get pregnant?

All right. Well, that continued for almost five minutes. We're talking about

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri. He was pressing questions to Dr. Nisha Verma.

She's an obstetrician, gynecologist, will describe her in greater detail, very qualified medical

doctor, physician, member of a medical school faculty, but here she was unable.

No, she was unwilling to answer the question, can men get pregnant?

Now, with today's broadcast, you'll see a link to the entire exchange between Senator Hawley

and Dr. Verma.

But let's just understand, we're looking at a culture staring right at a precipice,

right at the precipice, a culture on the brink of disaster. We're talking about a very highly

educated doctor, an obstetrician, gynecologist, medical school professor, and there's more to

that, as we will tell you. But nonetheless, she was unwilling to answer the question

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