Be prepared to hear more stories like this in the media….
The fight is on…..
The story of the 10-year-old victim was first made public by Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis physician who provides abortions. In an Indianapolis Star article published July 1, Bernard said that she had been called by a doctor in Ohio about a 10-year-old patient who was six weeks and three days pregnant.
The girl had to travel to Indiana for her procedure because abortions are now banned in Ohio after six weeks. Ohio was among the 13 states with “trigger bans” designed to take effect once Roe was struck down. Since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, Ohio has imposed a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, with no exceptions for rape and incest. While performing an abortion after six weeks remains legal in Indiana, lawmakers are expected to meet this month to consider further abortion restrictions.
The story quickly received international attention. In impassioned remarks on the future of abortion, Biden expressed outrage over the reported case. “She was forced to have to travel out of the state to Indiana to seek to terminate the pregnancy and maybe save her life,” Biden said at the White House last week. “Ten years old — 10 years old! — raped, six weeks pregnant, already traumatized, was forced to travel to another state.”
But the story also drew some skepticism because the doctor who offered the testimony gave no corroborating details and reporters who tried to find a criminal complaint linked to the alleged rape came up empty. Republicans — including Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and Rep. Jim Jordan — soon seized on the information vacuum, accusing critics of the Dobbs decision of weaponizing an unproven rumor.
In a Tuesday evening op-ed titled, “An Abortion Story Too Good to Confirm,” the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board criticized Biden for giving his “presidential seal of approval on an unlikely story from a biased source that neatly fits the progressive narrative but can’t be confirmed.”…
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[ Columbus Police Detective Jeffrey ] Huhn testified Wednesday that [Gershon] Fuentes admitted to detectives, through an interpreter, that he had sexual contact with the girl. The detective added that the girl also identified Fuentes as the man who impregnated her.
During the arraignment hearing, Meyer, the prosecutor, noted that the girl had only recently turned 10, the Dispatch reported — meaning shemay have been 9 at the time she was raped and became impregnated…..