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(LifeSiteNews) — One of the few pleasures of our post-sexual revolution age is watching progressives struggle to keep up with the runaway train that they themselves have launched down the tracks and towards the cliffs. As a prime example, Congress’s perkiest Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on CNN recently to complain to Anderson Cooper about the Texas Heartbeat Act—and promptly forgot that men can get pregnant, too. 

She started by claiming that the Heartbeat Act “is about controlling women’s bodies,” and then hastily added “and controlling people who are not cisgender men.” For those not keeping up with suddenly popular terms that keep getting chucked at us, “cisgender” is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex.” There’s a word for us now too, you see. AOC, however, apparently forgot the word “transgender,” which is understandable considering how fast things are moving along. 

At this point, alarm bells were surely clanging loudly inside AOC’s skull as she realized that her wokeness social credit score was plummeting and her internalized transphobia was gushing out of her mouth and getting everywhere on live TV. Anderson Cooper frowned inscrutably at her. AOC hastened on, this time personalizing the tragedy of the new pro-life law by stating it was really “is about making sure that someone like me, as a woman…” 

Ding ding ding! She’d done it again! For AOC, you see, is a cisgender woman—precisely the sort of person she was trying not to refer to with any specificity. Her eyes widened, and she plunged into a correction: “…or any menstruating person in this country, cannot make decisions over their own body.” Nailed it. For the rest of the interview, she switched to talking about “persons” or “people” rather than “women.” (If only she’d known that Justin Trudeau invented the perfect term for her: “Peoplekind.”) 

CNN, of course, was delighted with AOC’s performance—she did a neat trick at the end of her interview where she attempted to conflate pro-life laws with rape culture while ignoring the fact that abortionists are a rapist’s best friend—and discussed her insights at length after the junior Congresswoman left the show. They appeared to particularly enjoy her deploring of Governor Gregg Abbott’s ignorance, despite the fact that AOC couldn’t even remember the fact that she’s supposed to say birthing persons when speaking in public. Didn’t the Human Rights Campaign give AOC her lines? 

It was all nonsense, of course, and if you’d like to see a genuinely intelligent and thoughtful person respond to a hostile interviewer about the new pro-life law in Texas, check out this conversation on the BBC between an icy presenter and Dr. Calum Miller. Despite attempts to trip him up—the interviewer asks Miller at one point if he understands that he’s patronizing to women—Miller keeps his cool, sticks to the scientific facts, and explains why pro-life laws are good for people and good for society in general. It is to his credit that by the end of the conversation, the interviewer has nothing to say but a curt thank you. Miller was a credit to his position and profession. 

What passes for commentary at CNN, on the other hand, is having on a socialist abortion supporter who cannot even bring herself to refer to women in a conversation about women and babies because she believes that men can get pregnant, too.  

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Jonathon Van Maren is a public speaker, writer, and pro-life activist. His commentary has been translated into more than eight languages and published widely online as well as print newspapers such as the Jewish Independent, the National Post, the Hamilton Spectator and others. He has received an award for combating anti-Semitism in print from the Jewish organization B’nai Brith. His commentary has been featured on CTV Primetime, Global News, EWTN, and the CBC as well as dozens of radio stations and news outlets in Canada and the United States.

He speaks on a wide variety of cultural topics across North America at universities, high schools, churches, and other functions. Some of these topics include abortion, pornography, the Sexual Revolution, and euthanasia. Jonathon holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in history from Simon Fraser University, and is the communications director for the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform.

Jonathon’s first book, The Culture War, was released in 2016.