# Rereading “Atlas Shrugged”

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**Category:** John Walker's Reading List
**Tags:** ayn-rand, atlas-shrugged
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Here is an example of testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee by a witness of which I doubt the fertile imagination of Any Rand could have conceived. This is Texas senator John Cornyn questioning University of California “Law Professor” [Khiara Bridges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khiara_Bridges), who also has a Ph.D. in “anthropology” from Columbia University, on the racial disparity in abortion rate for black and non-black women. (Bridges’ testimony occupies only the first 2:30 of the video.)

[![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d22d1e2faf69b00978d726f3ebbe2fb637ce740e.jpeg "'You Believe There Ought To Be More Black Babies Aborted?': Cornyn Questions Pro-Choice Witness") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIcFTMzObWY)

Bridges, in addition to linking just about everything to “systemic racism” corrects Cornyn’s use of the word “woman” to “person with a capacity for pregnancy”, repeating the phrase like a parrot that has just learned it and won’t shut up.

This then motivates Missouri senator Josh Hawley to dig deeper into the definition of “people with a capacity for pregnancy”, “Would that be women?” he asks, setting off a scolding of the senator by the witness which would have been “conduct unbecoming” if done by a college professor to students in a class back in my [Bright College Days](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl3mRjydcPw). Again one minute and 48 seconds is enough for the senator to conclude that he’s heard enough from the professor.

[![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f77d54f1eb9c37d9f4428571e8eb6f2f3d2b6ed4.jpeg "Far Left Berkeley Law Professor Melts Down When Sen. Hawley Asks Her If Men Can Get Pregnant") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU7nzwbJ-Hk)

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