Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita-another MAGA Republican-went on Fox, vowing to investigate Dr. Or they could double down with the counter attack. They could do the right thing and acknowledge they might want to rethink their barbaric abortion laws. And apparently, Yost never bothered to check with cops in Columbus, when asking if they knew of any ten-year-olds who had been raped.Īt which point MAGA had another choice. Bernard and reporters Rudavsky and Fradette got it right. What I’m saying to you is there is not a damn scintilla of evidence.”Īnd then on Wednesday, July 13, Gerson Fuentes-of Columbus, Ohio-was “charged with raping a ten-year-old Ohio girl, whose travel to Indiana to seek an abortion attracted international attention,” as the Indy Star put it. I’m not saying it could not have happened. They wouldn’t leave him loose on the streets. There’s not one of them that wouldn’t be turning over every rock, looking for this guy and they would have charged him. He added: “I know the cops and prosecutors in this state. On Tuesday, July 12, Yost took it a step further, telling USA Today the story is “more likely. None of the officials we reached were aware of such a case in their areas.” Nor had “child services agencies in some of Ohio’s most populous cities, including Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo. Ohio governor Mike DeWine knew nothing about it. Bernard had reported a ten-year-old had been raped. On Saturday, July 9, Glenn Kessler, the fact-checker for the Washington Post, weighed in, calling it a “one-source” story.
He said, “We have regular contact with prosecutors and local police and sheriffs-not a whisper anywhere.”
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(By the way, it’s rich for MAGA to suddenly be obsessed with the truth, given they’re dedicated to the lie that Biden stole the election from Trump.)Ĭongressman Jim Jordan called the story a “lie.” The Wall Street Journal ran an editorial questioning its legitimacy.ĭave Yost, the attorney general of Ohio, who is (what else?) a Republican, went on (where else?) Fox TV to disparage the Star’s story. And how dare the Indy Star print a story that had only one source.
Bernard, an obstetrician-gynecologist, was the sole source. Thus began days of disparaging comments by MAGA, questioning the validity of the story. MAGA being MAGA, they went with the second option. Or they could counter-attack with a diversionary strike against the Indy Star and Dr. They could take the high road and admit there’s something twisted about forcing ten-year-olds who’ve been raped to give birth. President?)Īt which point MAGA had a choice. On July 8, President Joe Biden felt compelled to denounce the cruelty of Ohio’s abortion law. In a matter of days, the story had been picked up by newspapers all over the world. On July 1, the girl’s story was reported in an article in the Indy Star by Shari Rudavsky and Rachel Fradette. Caitlin Bernard-and the girl traveled to Indianapolis for an abortion. So the doctor in Ohio called a colleague in Indianapolis-Dr. Again, even for ten-year-olds who have been raped.īy the time the girl met with a doctor in Ohio, she’d been pregnant for just over six weeks. She couldn’t get an abortion in Ohio because it has a “fetal heartbeat law” that outlaws abortion after six weeks of conception. The ten-year-old needed an abortion because she had been raped. It’s a warning, Illinois voters, of what awaits you should MAGA take control of our state in the next election and impose their hateful abortion laws on us as they’ve done to residents of Ohio. I’m diving into a story out of Ohio and Indiana for a parochial purpose. Making a ten-year-old girl go through nine months of pregnancy and then give birth to a child fathered by the man who raped her? That’s pretty cruel and demented-even for MAGA.Īnd yet that’s exactly what they were going to do until a doctor from Indiana, of all places, came to the rescue. It’s illegal for a ten-year-old girl to get an abortion in Ohio-even if she’s been raped. I think we can all agree that MAGA’s unprecedented obsession with truth in regard to the rape of a ten-year-old girl in Ohio was really a sneaky attempt to divert attention from this rather unsettling fact. Content warning: This story contains references to sexual violence.
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