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Writing for the Daily Signal, of which she is the managing editor, Katrina Trinko (�09) behind Rep. Eric Swalwell�s recent, disastrous performance on Fox News, in which he tried to avoid a simple question about abortion from host Tucker Carlson: �Do you think it is the taking of a human life?� The California Democrat tossed out all the usual pro-abortion talking points, but never addressed Carlson�s inquiry head-on, despite numerous opportunities.

Congressman Swalwell�s constant deflection, writes Miss Trinko, �really gets to the gist of the abortion debate, which is this: Is the unborn baby human or not, and if not human, at what point does she become human?� It is a question that defenders of abortion cannot well answer, she explains:

Because after all, if the baby �����ԙt human, it�s irrelevant if women want to have abortions, just as it�s irrelevant if they want to remove tumors or a few cells or have any other number of medical procedures.

But if the baby is human � it�s horrifying that our society wouldn�t protect her life, just because she�s in a vulnerable, dependent position. �

If you�re going to make public policy about who lives and dies, it�s relevant who is human and who�s not. 

The Swalwell-Carlson exchange, Miss Trinko notes, calls to mind a similar episode from late 2015, when another California Democrat, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, could not bring herself to answer the question, �Is an unborn child 20 weeks into pregnancy a human being?� The questioner pressing Mrs. Pelosi was another alumna of the College � Lauretta Brown (�13), a reporter at Cybercast News Service: