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Less Than A Month Since Dobbs And We Have Our First Child Rape Victim [1]
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Date: 2022-07-14
9 year-old girl gets raped twice in Ohio. She gets pregnant. The OB-GYN who examines her determines the pregnancy is 6 weeks and 3 days along - Ohio bans abortions after 6 weeks.
The child, who has turned 10 since she was raped, can't receive an abortion in Ohio; so she has to travel to Indiana, which bans abortion at 22 weeks - and is in the process of trying to ban it altogether. But the Indiana legislature hasn't passed that bill yet, so the now-10 year old gets an abortion at 6 weeks and 3 days.
Coming so soon after Dobbs, this case study immediately forces the anti-choice crowd to answer a difficult question - should a 10 year old pregnant rape victim be forced to carry her rapist's fetus to term; so difficult a question, in fact, that they dodged by denying the story is true. Jim Jordan (R-OH) called the story "a lie." The WSJ published an editorial entitled editorial titled “An Abortion Story Too Good To Confirm” that called the case a “fanciful” tale. David Yost, the Republican Attorney General in Ohio, the state in which the victim was raped, insinuated the story was a lie - based on the fact, he said, no police report was filed and no arrest of a perpetrator sought.
Well, lo and behold, the story is true. The 10 year old girl exists. She got her abortion in Indiana from Dr. Caitlin Bernard. A 27-year-old, Gerson Fuentes, was arrested for the rape.
Not one word of apology from Jordan, Yost, or the WSJ. It's clear all of these men, and the WSJ, would not believe an adult woman who said she was raped. But I didn't know that such misogynistic skepticism would extend to a 9 year old. I guess next we'll hear she was wearing really short shorts around Mr. Fuentes who couldn't help getting all rapey, and I guess the little 9 year old should have kept her legs shut anyway.
Oh, and now that the story turns out to be true, the Attorney General of Indiana, Todd Rokita, has announced that . . . he's investigating Dr. Bernard and going after her medical license . . . apparently she didn't report having performed the abortion within the 3 days required by Indiana law.
Thank you, Justices Kegstand, Amy Coathanger Barrett, Pubic-Hair-on-my-Coke, and the rest of SCOTUS, for this bullshit. Thank you everyone who just couldn't get past "Hillary's emails." Thank you, Christianist, fascist, Dominionist misogynistic incel bastards who have brought this state of affairs to this country in the 21st century, in the space of less than a month.
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