Democrats like to style themselves as the “party of science.” Yet, when it comes to abortion, Democrats are often proud of their scientific illiteracy.

A Pennsylvania Democratic state legislator recently announced that he would introduce a bill forcing men to undergo vasectomies after having their third child or after they turn 40 years old. This legislator, Chris Rabb, thinks this is a clever response to Texas’s heartbeat bill, which he says restricts the reproductive rights of women, transgender men, and “non-binary folx.”