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Back on the 4th I wrote about a news story that was soooooooo perfect for leftist propaganda that I just had to ask, well, you know.
Bottom line, for me is this. If true it is so terrible as to be unbelievably gut wrenching. But, as Mr. McCain notes, I cannot ignore the massive convenience of such a story, the timing, place is such a match for Leftist rhetoric isn’t it? And, we do know that the left has, shall we say, a reputation for “creating” convenient stories.
The Other McCain was intrigued as to the ultra-convenient timing as well
This headline appeared Friday in the Columbus Dispatch:
As Ohio restricts abortions, 10-year-old
girl travels to Indiana for procedure
On Monday three days after the Supreme Court issued its groundbreaking decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist, took a call from a colleague, a child abuse doctor in Ohio.
Hours after the Supreme Court action, the Buckeye state had outlawed any abortion after six weeks. Now this doctor had a 10-year-old patient in the office who was six weeks and three days pregnant.
Could Bernard help? . . .
See? Convenient timing, so, enquiring minds, as they say, have to know. And, predictably, this story, still not verified as far as I know, is being used to attack pro-life legislation. Guess which president just referenced this story to highlight how evil Republicans are. The Gods of convenience my friends gave quite a gift to the Lefts propaganda machine. The Other McCain has some more thoughts
Monday, I called attention to this story (“A Story Too Good to Check?”) about an Indiana abortion doctor who claimed that, just three days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, she had a 10-year-old girl referred for an abortion from Ohio, where a new law banned abortions after six weeks — and the girl was allegedly just past that gestational threshold. As a longtime editor, the problem was obvious to me:
Where’s the comment from police?
Even if you’re willing to take Dr. Caitlin Bernard’s word for the basic claim — while some 10-year-olds are physically capable of getting pregnant, such cases are very rare — you’ve left the reader knowing nothing about the most basic elements of the story: What Ohio city did this happen in? Do authorities have a suspect in custody? Or is the public still in danger from the child rapist responsible for this atrocity?Obviously, I wasn’t the only one who found this story suspicious, and Megan Fox at PJ Media has been raising hell about it, too. The veracity of this story is not enhanced by the fact that Biden invoked it for political propaganda purposes today at the White House:
President Biden used the story to show his moral outrage, and shock, at how mean Republicans are of course
This isn’t some imagined horror. It’s already happening. Just last week, it was reported that a 10-year-old girl was a rape victim in Ohio — 10 years old — and she was forced to have to travel out of the state, to Indiana, to seek to terminate the [pregnancy] and maybe save her life. That’s — the last part is my judgment. Ten years old. Ten years old Raped, six weeks pregnant. Already traumatized. Was forced to travel to another state. Imagine being that little girl. Just — I’m serious — just imagine being that little girl. Ten years old.
Oh Biden was beside himself with angst, grief, rage, you name it. And, again, this story, sorry, unverified story, made it soooooooo easy to point out how extremely extreme those Conservatives are!
Ohio is so “extreme,” you see, and this story proves it — but when asked about the case, the White House was unable to provide any verification:
The White House has refused to offer proof to support President Biden’s claim that a 10-year-old rape victim was denied an abortion in Ohio and had to travel to Indiana for the procedure.
Mr. Biden said the story illustrated the “extreme” anti-abortion laws taking hold in states after the Supreme Court overturned a nationwide right to abortion.
When asked about the story, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to say if the administration had taken steps to verify the story or if it knew the girl’s identity. Instead, she referred questions to the Justice Department saying there was a “legal component.”
“I would refer you to the DOJ, I don’t have anything more to share on the identity of this young woman or the question you asked,” she said.
She said Mr. Biden highlighted the story to underscore how “extreme” anti-abortion laws are in states that have outlawed the decision.
When pressed again if the administration, including the Justice Department, will take steps to protect the girl, Ms. Jean-Pierre sidestepped the question.
Shouldn’t be easy for the White House to verify the story they are using? I mean that should be an automatic. Yet, they will not, or cannot. Two questions here for me. Why do they not want to verify this? And Will any media outlet call the administration out on this?
Stay tuned…………..
Since the democrats control both houses of congress and the presidency, if they wanted to make abortion on demand legal until the fourth trimester, they can do it. The only thing stopping them is politics.