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Home Front: Politix
Reporting on 10-Year-Old's Abortion Tale Without Committing Journalism
2022-07-11
[REDSTATE] An child sacrifice abortion story "too good to verify" is surrounded by questions that the press will not dare to ask.

Most of the staff here at RedState are well familiar with the concept of stumbling over a story that is just so good that you need to hold back and pause a moment, lest you be caught up in a falsified quandary. I have become attuned that when something sounds great right from the start, if all the elements are a bit too pat and fit together too perfectly, that is the time to pump the brakes and look deeper into things.

This is a practice many in our current journalism landscape lack, by all appearances.

Currently, a story is making the media rounds, fueled by a speech from President Biden, concerning the plight of a 10-year-old girl who was pregnant and needed to travel to get an child sacrifice abortion in another state. Streiff covered the specifics on Friday. The pregnancy, as reported, took place in Ohio, but following the rollback of Roe vs. Wade, that state implemented its firm child sacrifice abortion standards, forcing a trip to Indiana for the procedure.

The story emanates from the Indianapolis Star and cites the child sacrifice abortion doctor from the area as giving these specifics about the child. The need for the travel was that the girl was said to have passed the 6-week child sacrifice abortion trigger date in Ohio. The story has been spread far, even hitting international sources, but there are many glaring issues with the story. One question almost all the news outlets have failed to ask — Is the story even true?

By Sunday, the story remains relatively unchanged, so all the specifics that are being shared come from that lone source, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist. As Megan Fox, from our sister site PJ Media, has covered, Dr. Bernard is a rather active proponent for child sacrifice abortions, with a lengthy resume of media appearances. In just the past month, Fox has compiled a number of media entries that involve the child sacrifice abortionist lobbying on behalf of the procedure’s legality.

Glenn Kessler, the fact-checker at the Washington Post, to his credit, has also checked into things and failed to find any more details on the story as well. Of course, this being Kessler, he has to hedge on things when it appears that there may be bad results reflecting on the country’s press corps.
Posted by:Fred

#4  ...And it turns out that a year or so back, Dr. Bernard was in trouble for not reporting underage abortions as per state alw.

Curiouser and curiouser.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2022-07-11 14:23  

#3  If we had true journalism in America we would not have Joe Biden in the White House.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-07-11 12:14  

#2  ..so much so that they believe it themselves. That's why so many of their 'plans' and 'programs' fail.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-07-11 09:02  

#1  Didn't somebody somewhere say something about "if you repeat a lie enough times?"

Haven't the lefties been pushing "big lie" everywhere all the time?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-11 08:33  

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