Câu chuyện một đứa bé 10 tuổi là nạn nhân của một vụ hiếp dâm dẫn đến việc phải chạy trốn từ tiểu bang Ohio qua Indiana để phá thai đã gây nhiều sóng gió mấy ngày hôm nay. Đám lập pháp CH như Jim Jordan to tiếng gọi đó là chuyện xạo hết chỗ nói rồi thì biết chuyện đó là sự thật không thể chối cãi lại quay qua lên án và tấn công thủ phạm vì hắn là một tên di dân bất hợp pháp thay vì chuyện cấm phá thai. Chưa rõ tên thủ phạm đến Mỹ lúc nào nhưng cũng rất có thể hay biết đâu từ lúc Trump còn làm tổng thống.

Confirmation of Ohio rape victim's abortion story forces retreat from some conservative doubters

The news of a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim who traveled to Indiana to obtain an abortion caught national attention last week when President Joe Biden mentioned it in a White House speech. Those reports were soon rebuffed by abortion opponents who suggested the story had been fabricated.

By the time an Ohio man was ultimately arrested Tuesday and charged with raping the young girl — evidence of the initial report’s accuracy — the case had already become a microcosm of the fight over abortion rights in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last month to overturn decades of precedent that had established a constitutional right to abortion access.

Before The Columbus Dispatch reported Wednesday that 27-year-old Gerson Fuentes had been charged with and confessed to raping the girl, Ohio’s attorney general, state elected officials and The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, among others, all cast doubt on whether the account of the girl’s pregnancy and subsequent travel across state lines for an abortion was true.
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Republicans were quick to pounce on the case as news of it spread nationally, spouting claims that the story was part of a pro-liberal abortion rights agenda.

Republican Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said on Monday in an appearance on Fox News that he had heard “not a whisper” about the case from law enforcement or arrests made in connection with the case. He doubled down on Tuesday, suggesting to USA Today’s Ohio bureau that the story was a “fabrication.”

“I’m not saying it could not have happened,” Yost told USA Today. “What I’m saying to you is there is not a damn scintilla of evidence.”

When the news broke Wednesday of a man’s arrest in connection with the case, Yost released a statement praising the Columbus Police Department for “getting a rapist off the street.” He made no mention in the statement of his previous assertions about the validity of the case.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — prior to the arrest of the man charged in the case — had echoed Yost’s sentiment.

“Another lie. Anyone surprised?” Jordan said in a tweet, which he deleted after the rapist had been arrested and charged. Jordan said in a subsequent tweet that the suspect “should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Republicans from across the country continued to pile onto the narrative that the story was a hoax prior to the rapist’s arrest.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said in a tweet last week that “it looks like the story was fake to begin with. Literal #FakeNews from the liberal media.”
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Now that the story has been verified and the original claims have been debunked, Republicans have taken to politicizing a different dimension of the case: immigration.

Fox News has reported that the man charged in the case is an undocumented immigrant, citing a source with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Other conservative outlets have also updated their reports on the case, highlighting the immigration status of the suspect.

“Undocumented immigrants raping 10 year old girls is probably not the narrative they want on this so expect that inconvenient fact to be dropped,” conservative commentator Stephen Miller said in a tweet on Wednesday.

Đảng Cộng Hoà luôn chống lại những người ăn welfare, sống bám xã hội... Liệu rằng nếu đứa bé 10 tuổi trở thành mẹ đơn thân có phải đi làm kiếm tiền nuôi con, mua bảo hiểm y tế... hay xã hội sẽ nuôi cả hai mẹ con cho đến khi cả hai có thể tự lập được?

National Right to Life official: 10-year-old should have had baby

The 10-year-old Ohio girl who crossed state lines to receive an abortion in Indiana should have carried her pregnancy to term and would be required to do so under a model law written for state legislatures considering more restrictive abortion measures, according to the general counsel for the National Right to Life.

Jim Bopp, an Indiana lawyer who authored the model legislation in advance of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, told POLITICO on Thursday that his law only provides exceptions when the pregnant person’s life is in danger.

“She would have had the baby, and as many women who have had babies as a result of rape, we would hope that she would understand the reason and ultimately the benefit of having the child,” Bopp said in a phone interview on Thursday.

The story of the 10-year old rape victim forced to leave her home state to terminate a pregnancy has sparked a national conversation over the consequences of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and how far some states are willing to go to prohibit abortions.

The Columbus Dispatch reported on Wednesday that a 27-year-old man was charged with rape in connection with the case.

While Bopp’s model legislation, which was released in advance of the Supreme Court’s ruling late last month, encourages states to ban all abortions unless necessary to save the life of the pregnant person, it notes “it may be necessary in certain states to have additional exceptions, such as for a women pregnant as a result of rape or incest.”

“Unless her life was at danger, there is no exception for rape,” Bopp said. “The bill does propose exceptions for rape and incest, in my model, because that is a pro-life position, but it’s not our ideal position. We don’t think, as heartwrenching as those circumstances are, we don’t think we should devalue the life of the baby because of the sins of the father.”

It is currently legal to have an abortion in Indiana up to 22 weeks of pregnancy, though the state legislature is expected to hold a special session later this month to consider legislation that would ban abortion.

Republican legislative leaders have not shared details of the bill they plan to introduce, though abortion-rights proponents in the state are expecting the bill’s text to hew closely to Bopp’s model legislation.

Bopp said he believes it is “highly likely” Indiana’s legislature will pass a law during its special session that will “provide substantial protection to the unborn.”

“What the exact details of that are, I don’t know,” Bopp said.

Bác sĩ điều trị cho nạn nhân bị hiếp dâm 10 tuổi gửi Attorney General của tiểu bang Indiana lá thư yêu cầu ngưng "quấy nhiễu" (cease and desist) vì tất cả những gì bà ta làm đều hợp pháp.

Doctor who treated 10-year-old rape victim sends Indiana AG Todd Rokita cease and desist letter

Todd Rokita suggested the doctor may have violated a state law requiring doctors to report such incidents, but records show she complied with those requirements.

The lawyer for a doctor who provided abortion services to a 10-year-old rape victim sent Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita a cease-and-desist letter Friday demanding he stop making "false or misleading statements" about the physician.

The letter comes after a Fox News interview Wednesday where Rokita said he was investigating Dr. Caitlin Bernard, who made international headlines earlier this month when she told The Indianapolis Star that she treated a 10-year-old rape victim who couldn’t get an abortion in her home state of Ohio because of a “fetal heartbeat“ law. The state law, which was enacted after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, outlaws abortions at around the sixth week of pregnancy. Bernard said the girl was just over six weeks pregnant.

Rokita said in the interview he was "gathering the evidence" against Bernard, "including looking at her licensure” and whether “she failed to report” the procedure in Indiana because “it’s a crime to not report, to intentionally not report.”

In her letter to Rokita, Bernard’s attorney, Kathleen DeLaney, said, “Please cease and desist from making false and misleading statements about alleged misconduct by Dr. Bernard in her profession, which constitute defamation per se. Moreover, to the extent that any statement you make exceeds the general scope of your authority as Indiana’s Attorney General, such a statement forms the basis of an actionable defamation claim."

In her letter to Rokita, Bernard’s attorney, Kathleen DeLaney, said, “Please cease and desist from making false and misleading statements about alleged misconduct by Dr. Bernard in her profession, which constitute defamation per se. Moreover, to the extent that any statement you make exceeds the general scope of your authority as Indiana’s Attorney General, such a statement forms the basis of an actionable defamation claim."
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