The right's campaign to discredit a 10-year-old rape victim is just the beginning

[Nevilledog]

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.@anamariecox: "Faced with the outcome of the laws they supported, this extended round of “but, but!” shows that those who call themselves “pro-life” don’t care about pregnant women in real terms." https://nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ohios-10-year-old-rape-victim-reveals-republican-abortion-law-conseque-rcna38449… #UnitedStates

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Opinion | The right's campaign to discredit a 10-year-old rape victim is just the beginning
The right’s initial skepticism about the Ohio case was bad. The quest to prove the story still doesn’t mean what it clearly means is pure moral bankruptcy.
11:52 AM · Jul 16, 2022

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ohios-10-year-old-rape-victim-reveals-republican-abortion-law-conseque-rcna38449

You have heard of the 10-year-old child (and rape victim) who was forced to travel from Ohio to Indiana to receive an abortion. The story received mass media attention because it brought to tragic life the kind of horrific hypothetical once used to illustrate the possible outcomes of a post-Roe v. Wade America.

The right’s initial skepticism about the Ohio case was born of ugly and telling cynicism. Their continued quest to somehow prove the story doesn’t mean what it clearly means (that banning abortion will lead to pointless suffering) illustrates their moral bankruptcy. Republicans know their position is extreme and unpopular. Anti-abortion advocates have achieved their victory through a combination of hypocrisy and outright fabulism, assuring more moderate voters that worst-case scenarios are far-fetched and no uncomfortable questions need to be addressed. Yet today, faced with the outcome of the laws they supported, this extended round of “but, but!” shows that those who call themselves “pro-life” don’t care about pregnant women in real terms.

They certainly don’t care about the elementary school student in question, or don’t care very much. Anyone who did would not heap trauma upon trauma by indulging in the frivolous legal actions and inane speculation that’s now defined the conversation among “pro-life” lawmakers and pundits.

For many conservatives, those first reports out of Ohio and Indiana cooled the smug afterglow they’ve been basking in since the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization came down. Skeptical grumbling about the details (Jesse Watters opined that it “fits a pretty dangerous pattern of politically timed disinformation”) quickly became outright denial: Tucker Carlson deemed it “not true.”

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I disagree... They didn't blink, they pivoted. They blamed the Dr and that the suspect in here illegally. This morning I saw they're all crying about the fact it was only 52 girls under 14 got abortions in Ohio in a year.

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They'll never stop doing this, and you know why? They think they deserve to be RESPECTED for their monstrous policies.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. The true nightmare "hypothetical" is still waiting to happen...

That will be a girl forced to carry a pregnancy to term which kills her. Or, a girl with an ectopic pregnancy allowed to die because the docs are terrified of being prosecuted by zealot AGs who have zero obstetrical knowledge.

The Taliban clerics of the far-right will be gearing up to discredit those tragedies as well.

Fuck you, DeWine, and every other Taliban lawmaker. These girls and women have heartbeats too.

[Nevilledog]

2. Then they'll say it's God's will. They will never, never, never, admit they were wrong.

Every tragedy will be met with them saying "that's really sad, but...."