Opinion: Conservatives show disturbing lack of empathy to child rape victim in Ohio case

[turbinetree]

By Lisa Needham -July 18, 2022 4:09 PM

Republican officials and commentators were quick to declare the story 'a fabrication,' '#FakeNews,' and 'a fictive rape.'

Earlier this month, a story surfaced that seemed to highlight the absolute worst fears of those who warned that overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to horrors like minors being forced to deliver their rapist's child. Now, with the rapist arrested nearly two weeks later, the story highlights not just those horrors but the vicious tendencies of Republicans in Ohio and elsewhere.

The Indianapolis Star published the story on July 1. It focused on an Indianapolis-based OB/GYN who had received a call from a colleague in Ohio who specialized in child abuse. The colleague had a 10-year-old patient who was pregnant and was three days past Ohio's brand new six-week abortion ban. The patient was sent to the OB/GYN in Indiana for the procedure.

Indiana doesn't currently make abortions easy to obtain. There's a mandatory waiting period, both Medicaid and private health insurance are generally barred from covering the procedure, telehealth administration of medication is banned, and there's a parental consent requirement. Moreover, GOP legislators are champing at the bit to further restrict abortion in light of Roe being overturned, with a special session at the end of July that is sure to address the issue.


https://americanindependent.com/ohio-supreme-court-abortion-ban-dave-yost/


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[kysrsoze]

1. Disturbing or expected lack of empathy? That's why they're Repubs.

They don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves. It’s been that way for a LONG time, and presents itself in everything they value.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

2. "I've got mine...you go fuck yourself"

Has been the emblem of republiscum morals for as long as I can remember.

[JI7]

3. There are probably a bunch of Josh Duggars among them

[Bettie]

4. Lack of empathy is their brand

and they are proud of it.

[Novara]

5. It's their platform

Hate is their platform.

[krispos42]

6. If you believe life begins at conception then the age of the mother doesn't matter.

Neither does the circumstances of the pregnancy.

Period, end of sentence, full stop, the end, close book and put it back on the shelf.


Of course it's bullshit, but for some of them it's sincerely-held bullshit.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. "Vicious" is one word for them.

“Murderous” is another.