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The Other McCain notes that suddenly, this story, that maybe never happened, is seemingly gone
As any student of logic knows, it is very difficult to prove a negative, so I hesitate to say that the latest developments have definitively debunked the sensational story about a 10-year-old Ohio girl going to neighboring Indiana for an abortion. I first called attention to this story (“A Story Too Good to Check?”) on July 4, noting the lack of law enforcement comment as raising suspicions about the story told by abortionist Dr. Caitlin Bernard of Indianapolis. A day later, on July 5, Megan Fox of PJMedia detailed the many “red flags” in the story on her Twitter account:
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and any experienced editor would have spotted the biggest problem with this story: It had only one source, Dr. Bernard, who has a history as a media-connected advocate for abortion. She provided no corroborating evidence for this claim, despite the obvious fact that (a) it is very rare for a girl as young as 10 to get pregnant in the United States and (b) such a case would certainly require law enforcement involvement, but no law enforcement officials were quoted in the story. As a boy in middle school, I was taught that journalism was about “5 W’s and an H” — Who, What, When, Where, Why and How — and immediately noticed the absence of where in this story. What city or county in Ohio was the victim from?
Go read it all, the “doctor” who started this story Dr. Bernard has, been accused of having what you might call an “interesting past” in regards to being honest about providing abortions to underage girls.
Perhaps this will become the abortion outrageous outrage that wasn’t. Maybe it will just slip away, to be mentioned never more. Of course not! The people pushing so hard for abortions everywhere will manage to bring it up. Many of the more fanatical pro-abortion believed the story as soon as they first heard it, and that is that. Facts? Facts be damned!
