(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . GOP's 2022 version of rape and incest exceptions: "it's not an abortion when the mother is underage" [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2022-07-14 Ultimately, for the GOP, rape will be OK if you’re a citizen. In Indiana a 10 year old victim's doctor is more criminal than her 27 year old rapist: AG Todd Rokita trying to score a Texas abortion bounty in a reversal of the Mann Act. x Swalwell: It would not be an abortion if a 10 year old with her parents made the decision not to have a baby that was the result of rape? Republican Witness: That’s not an abortion Swalwell: Are you familiar with disinformation? pic.twitter.com/6zyO3Bq2Uv — Acyn (@Acyn) July 14, 2022 x We're having some batshit insane conversations in this country, and at a federal level. https://t.co/nWrsdojr3H — Jack Murphy (@JackMurphyRGR) July 14, 2022 x This witness tried to claim that because she’s a 10 year old, it is not an abortion. WHAT!? You cannot redefine MEDICAL TERMS based on use case if they don’t align with your narrow, dangerous rhetoric. https://t.co/o798BUnoor — Mallory McMorrow (@MalloryMcMorrow) July 14, 2022 x Some Republicans dismissed the gut-wrenching story of a 10-year-old girl seeking abortion care. Now they know better. (via @MaddowBlog) https://t.co/GBtpwiUqUZ — MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 14, 2022 As part of the debate over abortion rights, the discussion often leads to hypothetical nightmares. What would Republican opponents of reproductive rights do, for example, about a theoretical tragedy involving a 13-year-old impregnated by a rapist? What would the right say about a 12-year-old who’d been raped by a relative? Two weeks ago, however, an Indianapolis Star report took the conversation in a different direction, shining a light not on a hypothetical nightmare but on one that was apparently all too real: Three days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Indiana received a call from a colleague in Ohio, where an abortion ban had just kicked in. According to the Star’s report, written by a credible, veteran journalist, the child abuse physician in Ohio had a 10-year-old patient in the office who was six weeks and three days pregnant, and the doctor hoped the girl could circumvent the abortion ban in the Buckeye State and have the pregnancy terminated in neighboring Indiana, before its Republican policymakers imposed an abortion ban of their own. By any fair measure, it was a gut-wrenching story, and a week after the Star’s article was published, the Biden White House was using it as an example of why abortion rights needed to be protected. Soon after, Republicans and conservative media outlets started expressing skepticism about the version of events, and in some circles, that skepticism quickly turned to a wholesale rejection of the story’s accuracy. [...] Conservative media outlets like Fox News, The Washington Times and the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal followed suit, telling conservatives the story “was not true,” “a huge lie” and a “fanciful tale.” And then the suspected rapist was arrested. The larger point is not to mock those who assumed the story was illegitimate. Rather, what I hope will happen now is that the Republicans and their allies who dismissed this story will consider anew the underlying policy question: In the United States, should the government force raped children to take their pregnancies to term against their wishes? www.msnbc.com/... x Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita says he's going after the doctor who treated the 10-year-old rape victim (who had to leave Ohio for an abortion) and then spoke to the press about the story https://t.co/VD8Ucwwwxh — Evan Hill (@evanhill) July 14, 2022 x Fox News had the Indiana AG to say he’s opening a criminal investigation of the doctor in the 10 year-old abortion story. They then aired the doctor’s photo. They’re either actively trying to get her killed, or just don’t give a damn that they’re putting her in danger. — Radley Balko (@radleybalko) July 14, 2022 x When there's a sexual predator and a victim, Jim Jordan always sides with the predator. He did at Ohio State, and now in calling the 10-year-old Ohio rape victim a liar (and then cowardly deleting his tweets after). Ohio's kids will not be safe until Jim Jordan is out of office. — Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) July 14, 2022 [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/14/2110271/-GOP-s-2022-version-of-rape-and-incest-exceptions-it-s-not-an-abortion-when-the-mother-is-underage Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/