The Columbus Dispatch, which broke the news of Fuentes’s arrest, reported that there were 52 abortions performed on children 15 and under in Ohio in 2020, roughly one a week in just one state.
Surely right-wingers, who love to accuse their enemies of pedophilia, understand that children are raped in America.
Instead there was sneering incredulity, as if a raped 10-year-old being denied an abortion wasn’t an inevitable consequence of an abortion ban without a rape exception. There is nothing wrong with seeing a single-source news report and deciding you want to withhold judgment until more information emerges. This whole hideous episode has demonstrated the extent to which conservatives are unwilling to grapple with the reality of the abortion regime they are imposing on much of the country. In a statement, her lawyer said she’s considering legal action against Rokita and others who have “smeared” her. On Thursday afternoon, The Star reported that Bernard reported the abortion to the Indiana Department of Health and the Department of Child Services, as state law requires. It looks like the only thing Bernard did wrong, though, is to embarrass Republicans. On Wednesday, Watters displayed a photograph of Bernard and said, “According to reporting from PJ Media, she has a history of failing to report child abuse cases.” Then Indiana’s attorney general, Todd Rokita, appeared on Watters’s show, describing Bernard as an “abortion activist acting as a doctor,” and announcing she was under investigation. Rather than apologize to Caitlin Bernard for calling her a liar, many on the right have started attacking her for not reporting the rape herself, even though the police already knew about it by the time she saw the girl. The children’s services department in Columbus alerted the police about the rape in June. Officials say that a 27-year-old named Gerson Fuentes was arrested on Tuesday and has confessed. The answer to Dougherty’s question is now yes. “Hey, so did they catch the guy who raped the Ohio ten year old yet?” the National Review writer Michael Brendan Dougherty tweeted last week, seemingly sarcastically. “The more you learn about this, the more unbelievable it becomes,” said the host, Jesse Watters.Ī Wall Street Journal editorial on Tuesday described the report as “fanciful,” noting that “no one has been able to identify the girl or where she lives,” as if that information should be public. The conservative website PJ Media claimed, last Friday, that the account had “many of the elements of a hoax.” On Monday, Ohio’s Republican attorney general, Dave Yost, went on Fox News to say that he knew of no police reports about a 10-year-old rape victim. The right, however, quickly convinced itself that the tale was dubious and probably false. The report, being illustrative of the ghoulish impact of abortion prohibitions, went viral, and Joe Biden mentioned it in a speech.
An Ohio law banning abortion after fetal cardiac activity can be detected - usually around the sixth week of pregnancy - had just gone into effect, so the girl needed to cross state lines for care. The Ohio doctor had a 10-year-old patient who was six weeks and three days pregnant. Wade, an Indiana obstetrician and gynecologist named Caitlin Bernard told The Indianapolis Star about a call she’d gotten from a doctor in Ohio. Not long after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times reports how the Right humiliated themselves in their eagerness to discredit the story and the child. The right showed themselves to be heartless, cruel fools. In the Ohio case, Republicans jumped all over the story and called it fake news. In my limited view, those who want a 10-year-old child to have a baby are sadists. If they are, they should not bear a child. As I showed in my original post, there have been many reports of children who were raped and impregnated. But then someone wrote a comment here implying that the whole story sounded like fake news. I had not planned to write anything more about the child who was raped in Ohio, became pregnant with the rapist’s semen, but had to go to Indiana for an abortion.
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