I harbor no illusions that RFK Jr. is pro-life, as in that he’s against legal abortion. And I won’t give Donald Trump “most pro-life president” honors, as some have. Opposing Roe v. Wade was politically convenient for him. I’m glad he listened to the Federalist Society and appointed justices who knew Roe was bad law. The likes of Amy Coney Barrett, Sam Alito, and the rest had the law on their side when they looked at Dobbs. It wasn’t their own personal morality that they were eager to impose on the country. That’s what judicial activists do. That’s not conservative. Just, for the record.

That said, I caught a little of Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy’s appearance before the Senate Finance Committee today. As these things tend to be, it was mostly a show for show-horse senators. But there is no denying that his establishment skepticism comes in handy when it comes to abortion pills. He seems to get that they were rushed to market. He seems to be open to the possibility that they are not safe and are harmful not only to the intended target but also to women.

Would that someone like Elizabeth Warren care. So, instead of pretending pregnancy-care centers that don’t even have the resources to mean the end of abortion in America, she could at least work toward some minimum standards for the health and safety of women when they are pressured to end the lives of their unborn children by pill, increasingly prescribed over telehealth.

Kennedy says the Federal Food and Drug Administration investigation is ongoing. In some regards, it’s a shame Make America Healthy Again has become a MAGA cause. In an alternative reality, a little healthy skepticism about the continued march of abortion — now in pill form, over the mail and at your local drugstore — on the lives of scared women and innocent children, could be a bit of a bridge for meeting up on some common ground. And led by a Kennedy, no less. Even if it was just his skepticism that got him there.

That won’t happen. But, as harm to women by these pills — besides the obvious death of their children — continues to be reported, could we at least, MAHA, MAGA, NADA (None-of-the-Above), do something really crazy like follow the science and protect women as much as one can in an abortion scenario?