A Phony Story Is the Only Time Activist-Journalists Refuse to Abort
If it fits the leftist narrative, it leads.
by Daniel J. Flynn
July 12, 2022, 11:15 PM
When did Amber Heard, Jussie Smollett, and Christine Blasey Ford become the fact checkers at the nation’s leading media outlets?
Earlier this month, the Indianapolis Star reported that Ohio law compelled a 10-year-old girl to cross state lines into Indiana to undergo an abortion. The story, surfacing just days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs v. Jackson decision, arrived at a convenient time for maximum impact.
From TMZ to the Hill to China’s state news agency Xinhua, the story free-floated from the gossip pages to hard news to points far beyond the borders of the United States. Dana Bash used the anecdote to Dana Bash South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on CNN’s Sunday show State of the Union. The president of the United States even cited the 10-year-old girl forced to travel out of Ohio to “terminate the presidency” in his emphasize-end-of-quote-repeat-the-line speech announcing his executive order on abortion.
For the real journalists and honest politicians defying oxymorons, determining authenticity trumps gauging impact.
Megan Fox, of PJ Media (and not of Transformers fame), raised the rather important point that Dr. Caitlin Bernard, “the only source, is an abortionist and has been in the [New York Times] participating in an anti-Trump hit piece and is clearly an activist. She has a stake in preserving abortion, it literally pays her bills.”
Should a story based on, at best, single-sourced hearsay from an interested party ever run in any responsible news outlet anywhere?
Even this gives the blockbuster too much credit. The ostensible source did not witness anything. Bernard says she heard another physician say that a 10-year-old Ohio girl needed to cross state lines to obtain an abortion. Given that Bernard stalked microphones to tout a pro-abortion position prior to all this but now refuses to answer very basic questions, the prospect that this even amounts to hearsay rather than hogwash seems dubious. The attorney general of Ohio appeared on Jesse Watters Primetime Monday to state that even though state law makes physicians mandatory reporters, nobody reported this instance of child-rape to law enforcement.
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