Texas Rep. Chip Roy, who fell out of Donald Trump's favor for voting against overturning the 2020 election, can't seem to do anything right for anybody. No longer aboard the Trump train, it seems Roy has only doubled down on GOP fear-mongering when it comes to denying birthing people reproductive health care. This isn’t necessarily new for Roy: Since seeking office in 2018, he’s billed himself as a firmly pro-life candidate. Yet Roy has clearly failed to educate himself on reproductive health topics. Roy’s old campaign website claimed life begins at conception—a bold claim considering there is no definitive answer within the scientific community.
He also believes that abortions at 20 weeks somehow constitute dismemberment, which is about as unscientific and ignorant as you can get on the topic. “The procedure for an abortion, when we’re talking about 20 weeks as I understand it is dilation and extraction,” Roy said while questioning Dr. Yashica Robinson Wednesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on abortion access. The procedure known as D&X is an incredibly rare one when it comes to abortion and the term really only took off as a means of using scare tactic language for those on the pro-life side. Not content to correct or educate himself on the matter or even who he was speaking to, Roy spoke over and addressed Dr. Robinson as Mrs. Robinson.