In this new ad, Elizabeth Warren asks some very good questions.

Why do women have to fight the same old battles? Women still don’t get equal pay for equal work – Republicans blocked that, and even pushed a law that could have denied insurance coverage for birth control. We’re still fighting to protect a woman’s right to choose nearly 40 years after Roe v. Wade, and we could be just one Supreme Court justice away from losing it. How could this be happening in 2012?

She just left out the part that sending her to Washington as U.S. Senator from Massachusetts is part of the process of not backing down.

Talking points Memo has the article Rep. Steve King: I’ve Never Heard Of A Girl Getting Pregnant From Statutory Rape Or Incest.

A 1996 review by the Guttmacher Institute found “at least half of all babies born to minor women are fathered by adult men.”

Rep. King is willing to make all sorts of legislation without having personally seen a case, but on this issue, he must have a personal telling of a story before he will consider legislation. As Stephen Colbert might say, “Is this unbelievable, or is this the most unbelievable thing you have ever heard?”

Why do we allow people who are as ignorant of the facts of life as Rep. Steve King is to make legislation about sexuality? There should be a test of biological knowledge of all Congress critters before they are allowed to vote on, let alone propose, any such legislation. Maybe we need a voter ID law for Congress critters.