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Right-wingers need to apologize to the 10-year-old rape victim for denying her story [1]
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Date: 2022-07-14
A reproductive rights activist, gagged by a scarf in the colors of the US flag, marches during a protest against a recent Supreme Court ruling on abortion rights, in New York.
You no longer have to wonder how low the right-wing fanatics will go. Members of the so-called “pro-life” party should be ashamed of themselves. But they aren’t. They bask in the glow of their egos, confident in their supremacy, while the innocent and vulnerable suffer. And I can’t imagine anyone suffering more than the 10-year-old girl from Ohio who was raped and then, because of an archaic decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, forced to leave her home state and travel to Indiana for an abortion. But adding to her trauma are the right-wing pundits who’ve smeared her and denied her truth.
The story of the little girl was published in the Indianapolis Star on July 1. The lead author of the piece, Shari Rudavsky, a health and medical reporter for the Star for 18 years, wrote that just three days after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Caitlin Bernard got a call from a doctor in Ohio telling her that they had a 10-year-old patient who’d been the victim of a sexual assault. She was six weeks and three days pregnant, and she needed an abortion.
There was no reason to deny the veracity of this story. As Daily Kos reported Wednesday, a Columbus, Ohio, man was charged with the 10-year-old girl’s rape. Gershon Fuentes, 27, confessed and turned himself in to authorities, and admitted to raping the child on two other occasions. But none of this stopped the filthy trash that came out of the mouth of such Fox News talking heads as Jesse Watters, who called the story a “hoax” and part of a “politically timed disinformation,” The Daily Beast reports. Or an editorial published by The Wall Street Journal, calling the story a “fanciful tale” that was “too good to confirm.” And Fox News’ Tucker Carlson simply stated the story was “not true.”
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