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When US congressman Brandon Gill asked a pro-abortion law professor to name her preferred abortion method this week, she declined. Every procedure he described is performed in Australia.

A clip of a Texas congressman asking a pro-abortion law professor to name her preferred method of abortion reached over seven million views this week, after she declined to engage with his descriptions of each procedure.

US Congressman Brandon Gill posted the exchange to X on Wednesday, following a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on the alleged weaponisation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

Lila Rose, founder of Live Action, shared Gill’s video with the caption: “Watch this. @repbrandongill leaves an abortion advocate stunned after confronting her with the reality of abortion, reading the descriptions of each method.”

The witness was Jessica L. Waters, a Senior Scholar at American University’s School of Public Affairs, who had been called to testify in defence of the FACE Act.

The Exchange

Gill opened: “You’re an advocate for abortion policy. What’s your favourite type of abortion?”

Waters replied that she advocated for patients having access to “the full realm of reproductive healthcare.” When Gill asked whether she had a preferred method, she said she did not.

Gill then named four procedures, describing each and asking Waters to respond.

Suction abortion, he said, involves “a strong suction — 29 times the power of a household vacuum cleaner — [that] tears the baby’s body apart and sucks it through the hose into a container.”

Dilation and curettage, he explained, makes use of “a sharp looped knife… inserted into the uterus” wherein “the baby’s body is cut into pieces and extracted, often by suction.”

Of dilation and evacuation, he described “forceps inserted into the uterus, grabbing and twisting the baby’s body to dismember him or her — if the head is too large, it must be crushed in order to remove it.”

And explaining saline injection, Gill said, “a 20 per cent salt solution is injected through the mother’s abdomen into the baby’s amniotic fluid — the baby’s skin is burned off — the baby ingests the solution and dies of salt poisoning, dehydration, and haemorrhaging of the brain.”

Waters responded to each by stating she preferred to discuss the FACE Act.

“I would prefer to talk about the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which is what that access gets,” she said.

Gill replied, “This is the subject of the hearing. This is about protests outside abortion clinics. I’m asking you about abortion.”

He closed: “I wouldn’t want to talk about this either if I were you — because it is barbaric and evil.”

The Reactions

Jason Chaffetz, former US congressman, called the exchange “a master class in questioning a witness.” Commentator Matt Walsh said it was “brilliantly done.” The interchange was “simply masterful,” according to podcaster Michael Knowles. Turning Point USA commentator Isabel Brown wrote that “Congress needs 535 Brandon Gills.”

Democrat congressman Shri Thanedar called Gill’s questioning “creepy” on X. Gill responded by posing him the same question. Thanedar replied that his preferred abortion was “the kind that’s safe, legal, accessible, and none of your d*** business to regulate.”

The hearing — titled “From Tool to Weapon: The FACE Act and the Dangers of Federalising Criminal Law” — examined a Department of Justice report on the Biden-Harris administration’s alleged coordination with pro-abortion groups to target pro-life protesters.

The report found Biden-era prosecutors sought sentences averaging 26.8 months for pro-life defendants, compared to 12.3 months for pro-abortion defendants. At least four prosecutors were dismissed before its release.

Eva Edl, a FACE Act prosecution victim who survived a Yugoslavian communist concentration camp, also testified at the hearing.

The Procedures in Australia

All four procedures Gill named are performed in Australia.

Peer-reviewed estimates put annual abortions in Australia at approximately 88,000 as of 2017–18. South Australia is the only jurisdiction with mandatory full reporting; its most recent figures show vacuum aspiration and dilation and curettage account for 30.8 per cent of procedures, dilation and evacuation for 6.5 per cent, and intra-uterine injection — the category covering saline methods — for a further 2.1 per cent.

Australia’s pro-life movement has been pressing the Crisafulli government to lift a parliamentary gag on abortion debate since late 2024.

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