Another day in the reactionary media cycle
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You may have seen the wingut-media industrial complex deciding to try to “debunk” the story of a ten-year-old girl who had to flee to Indiana to get an abortion, based on the self-serving assertions of Ohio Republicans:
Meanwhile, these fucking ghouls. pic.twitter.com/heD9bPOmqC— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) July 13, 2022
Uncritically sharing hysteria posts about mass fentanyl overdoses to calling a 10 year old rape victim a liar pipeline pic.twitter.com/exhP04xKfX— hk (@hassankhan) July 13, 2022
If a “debunking” appears in the Wall Street Journal famously zero-standards propaganda pages rather than its first-rate news pages, what does this tell you? Nothing, apparently, if the state’s story seems too good to check:
“As a libertarian, it is important to take the bare assertions of powerful state officials at face value, if they confirm our shared priors that the state having the power to coerce women and girls to carry pregnancies to term is Good, Actually. And I definitely do not want to consider why a girl in this context might be reluctant to report a rape to the local authorities!”
Anyway, you can probably see where this is headed:
I was the ONLY reporter in the courtroom this morning as the man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl, impregnating her, leading to an abortion in Indiana, was arraigned.
This confirms that the case exists.https://t.co/eWvtBMxqZW— Bethany Bruner (@bethany_bruner) July 13, 2022
Yes, Virginia, child rape victims exist, and yes Republicans think the state should have the power to force them to carry their pregnancies to term, and they will happily slander you on national TV to score political points:
Attention child rapists: Ohio welcomes you! Families who want to spare your victims the horror of giving birth to an abuser’s spawn now have powerful incentives to delay or limit cooperation with police. Finally, a legal system that’s on YOUR side!— Julian Sanchez (@normative) July 13, 2022
The conclusion here is that, no matter how many stories suggest that agree or disagree the American “pro-life” movement must be ceded the moral high ground, it is in fact dominated by total sickos pursuing horrible policies:
Never, ever let the people who unleashed this horror claim the moral high ground over you. Abortion bans are lethal, dehumanizing, and fundamentally incompatible with human freedom. They inflict anguish and suffering that should shock the conscience of any decent, moral person. https://t.co/w3g0uY13hi— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 13, 2022