Fri Mar 25, 2022 – 6:12 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – As D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson takes heat from conservatives for claiming she was unable to define “woman,” USA Today “wellness reporter” Alia Dastagir is stepping in to claim “science” backs up the jurist’s evasiveness.
Asked by Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee on Tuesday if she could “provide a definition for the word woman,” Jackson claimed “I can’t” in “this context,” because “I’m not a biologist.” Blackburn replied that “the fact that you can’t give me a straight answer about something as fundamental as what a woman is underscores the dangers of the kind of progressive education that we are hearing about.”
Jackson’s response was met with widespread derision among her conservative critics, with many concluding she was unwilling or unable to dissent from the transgender orthodoxy to which the Democrat Party is currently devoted. But on Thursday USA Today published a column in which Dastagir attempts to defend Jackson’s non-answer on the merits.
“Scientists, gender law scholars and philosophers of biology said Jackson’s response was commendable, though perhaps misleading,” Dastagir wrote. “It’s useful, they say, that Jackson suggested science
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