WaPo Joined Right in Casting Doubt on 10-Year-Old’s Post-Roe Nightmare
The story of a ten-year-old child rape victim from Ohio who sought an abortion across the state line in Indiana caught fire in US media, and around the world, after President Joe Biden (7/8/22) brought it up in public remarks. Given the difficulty of defending a law and a culture that produces such a horrific situation, the right wing went into overdrive attacking the story’s veracity.
Fox News‘ Tucker Carlson (Mediaite, 7/13/22) accused Biden of “lying,” insisting the story was “not true”; a New York Post op-ed headline (7/12/22) declared it “looks like...