A brand-new test for a hollowed-out American media sector.” Wade stems from regional/local newspapers, because that’s where the reporting on this issue will be playing out for months and years. It’s “fitting,” Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple said, “that perhaps the biggest abortion story since the SCOTUS overturning of Roe v. “This confirms that the case exists,” she wrote on Twitter, sharing the link to her story.īruner said the Dispatch relied on public records to track down Fuentes. The Dispatch’s Bethany Bruner said she was the “only reporter in the courtroom” when it happened. Hardly any of them were even in the state. None of the media outlets that sowed doubt about the case were in court for the arraignment. Police say Gerson Fuentes, 27, “confessed to raping the child on at least two occasions.” On Wednesday, the Columbus Dispatch reported that a man has been charged in the case. In recent days, after President Biden cited the news report and denounced Ohio’s abortion ban, many conservative media outlets and Republican office-holders poured skepticism on the case, and some personalities flatly said they did not believe the 10-year-old existed. No further details about the girl or the alleged rapist were obtainable, even though some news outlets tried. Caitlin Bernard, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Indianapolis, who said she had conferred with a child abuse doctor in Ohio. On July 1, the Indianapolis Star reported that a 10-year-old girl in Ohio was pregnant, and because “the Buckeye state had outlawed any abortion after six weeks,” the girl was brought to Indiana for an abortion. And in doing so, they have highlighted the inhumanity of some partisan punditry.

Two newspapers owned by Gannett, one in Indiana and one in Ohio, have humanized the new American reality about abortion now that Roe v. A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter.

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