These media figures discredited a report on a 10-year-old girl needing an abortion. There was just an arrest in the case.

After President Joe Biden mentioned the case of a 10-year-old girl who was raped in Ohio then forced to travel to Indiana to have an abortion due to the state’s extreme abortrion access laws, right-wing media spent days casting doubt on the story and claiming it was false. On July 13, it was reported that an arrest has been made in connection to the case, and the alleged rapist, Gershon Fuentes, confessed to the crime.

The story was initially published by the Indianapolis Star on July 1 and quoted Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an...