Exactly the question I had when I heard about this claim. But there’s more.
A Story Too Good to Check?
This story has since been repeated all over the place (e.g., “‘A tragic situation’: Governor discusses pregnant 10-year-old with CNN host”), but having read through the original story twice with an editor’s eye, my question is: Where’s the comment from police?
You’d think a scumbag getting busted for raping and impregnating a ten year-old child would be in the news. I can’t find anything about such a case.
Cites, or it didn’t happen.
And this, from the CNN report he cites:
Hours after the Supreme Court action, the Buckeye state had outlawed any abortion after six weeks. Now this doctor had a 10-year-old patient in the office who was six weeks and three days pregnant.
First, Ohio law does not ban abortion after “six weeks.” The ban is after a fetal heartbeat is present. So the law is mischaracterized to begin.
Then there’s the strange coincidence that just hours after the Court ruled, this doc had a patient exactly(?) “six weeks and three days” along. So the poor concerned doc couldn’t do a damned thing about the pregnant 10yo.
That’s a lie. ORC 2919.1:
It is an affirmative defense to a charge under this section that compliance with the requirements of this section was not possible because an immediate threat of serious risk to the life or physical health of the pregnant woman from the continuation of her pregnancy created an emergency necessitating the immediate performance or inducement of an abortion.
Pregnancy in a ten year old is pretty by definition life threatening. I just listened to a retired RN rant about the dangers.
This does not add up. A case of an extremely rare pregnancy that can’t be documented just happened to occur immediately after the Court ruled, and doctor couldn’t do anything about it even though the law has an exception that says she can, and it shockingly and heart-tuggingly happened to a little ten year-old girl.
My sister thinks this is a bogus story being hyped to create a citeable urban legend, for the pro-abortion types to wave in people’s faces. I do, too.
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