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RT @jbendery: Excellent overview of the shameful, disgusting, right-wing smear campaign against a doctor who helped a 10-year-old rape vict… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @birnbaum_e: NEW — The Competitiveness Coalition, a group fighting antitrust legislation targeting the biggest US tech companies, presen… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @emilybell: Good job by ⁦@JuddLegum⁩ on the timeline of a story which showed how political influence campaigns work . Winding through Mu… — PolitiTweet.org

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10. Final note: The right is trying to establish a precedent that any negative consequences from its abortion bans must be corroborated by an arrest or police report. Lots of bad things happen that are never reported to the police. This is not a standard anyone should accept. — PolitiTweet.org

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11. Final note: The right is trying to establish a precedent that any negative consequences from its abortion bans must be corroborated by an arrest or police report. Lots of bad things happen that are never reported to the police. This is not a standard anyone should accept. — PolitiTweet.org

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10. For many elected officials, the answer to this question is "yes." These officials are receiving financial support from corporations and others that purport to support reproductive rights. For more accountability journalism, check out the newsletter https://t.co/HGVaDh9giG — PolitiTweet.org

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9. This entire smokescreen was created by people who want to avoid answering this question: Should a 10-year-old rape victim be forced to give birth? — PolitiTweet.org

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8. Ohio could have included a rape or incest exemption. It did not. Instead, it included an ambiguous health exemption that may or may not apply to this 10-year-old girl. It makes sense for a doctor to refer her out of state to avoid potential prosecution. — PolitiTweet.org

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8. Ohio could have created a rape or incest exemption. It did not. Instead, there is an ambitious health exemption that may or may not have applied to this 10-year-old. It makes sense for a doctor to refer her to another state to avoid potential prosecution. — PolitiTweet.org

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7. Finally, many on the right (including the Ohio AG) argued that the girl did not need to travel to Indiana because there was a clear health exemption that would have allowed her to receive the abortion in Ohio. This is false. — PolitiTweet.org

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@GlennKesslerWP 6. In this case, the rape was appropriately reported by the child's parent on June 22. The fact that Kessler and various right-wing operatives could not obtain the report was not evidence of anything, other than their own ignorance. https://t.co/OrmuZLc6IM — PolitiTweet.org

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5. The other issue seized on by the right-wing, and then @GlennKesslerWP at the Washington Post, is under Ohio law that it is mandatory a rape to a child welfare agency. That is true. But it's not mandatory for those reports to be made PUBLIC. https://t.co/OrmuZLtI7m — PolitiTweet.org

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4. One piece of "evidence" right-wing media figures used to suggest the story was false is that Bernard supports abortion rights. BERNARD IS A DOCTOR THAT PERFORMS ABORTIONS. THE FACT THAT SHE SUPPORTS ABORTION RIGHTS IS NOT A RED FLAG. — PolitiTweet.org

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3. Rudavsky sourcing was solid. Papers run stories based on ANONYMOUS sources all the time, which are inherently less reliable. But Rudavsky had an on-the-record quote from Dr. Caitlin Bernard, the obstetrician-gynecologist who performed the abortion. https://t.co/OrmuZLtI7m — PolitiTweet.org

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2. On 7/1, the @indystar reported a 10-year-old rape victim was forced to travel to Indiana to receive an abortion because she was more than 6 weeks pregnant. The lead reporter was @srudavsky who has been the health reporter for the @IndyStar for 18 YRS https://t.co/kcdOVbV43G — PolitiTweet.org

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1. THERE WAS NEVER ANY REASON TO DOUBT THE STORY THAT A TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL WAS FORCED TO TRAVEL TO INDIANA FOR AN ABORTION. The sourcing was strong. The reporter is reliable. The entire thing was a right-wing fever dream. Follow along if interested. https://t.co/OrmuZLtI7m — PolitiTweet.org

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A 10-year-old Ohio girl was raped and forced to travel to Indiana to get an abortion First, the right-wing claimed the whole thing was a hoax Now the Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita says he's investigating the DOCTOR who helped the girl — PolitiTweet.org

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Kessler repackaged right-wing conspiracies (an abortion provider invented a 10-year-old rape victim) in a veneer of respectability. Now he's leaning on his CYA line at the end to defend his conduct. Alternatively, he could just admit that his "fact check" was a mistake. — PolitiTweet.org

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Greenwald continuing the right-wing misinformation campaign about the 10-year-old girl in Ohio who was raped at had to travel to Indiana to get an abortion. Greenwald now falsely claiming that the Ohio law has a rape exception. It has no rape exception. https://t.co/muFbvdCt7e — PolitiTweet.org

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.@Jim_Jordan is not alone. Instead of grappling with the impacts of Ohio's abortion ban, they smeared the doctor who helped this young girl as a liar I'm collecting receipts and will publish them in the next Popular Information newsletter Sign up free. https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org

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@Jim_Jordan Now Jordan is tweeting about Jill Biden's "breakfast tacos gaffe." https://t.co/zlbLTm2LDy — PolitiTweet.org

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A 10-year-old girl was raped in @Jim_Jordan's home state of Ohio. Jordan publicly called the story a lie. Then, after the rapist was arrested and confessed, Jordan deleted the tweet without any acknowledgment or apology. https://t.co/ot4SaDtbBz — PolitiTweet.org

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During the hearing today, the suspect who was arrested, per an interpreter, CONFESSED to raping the 10-year-old girl — PolitiTweet.org

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@JonathanTurley @nypost The story, however, has been confirmed and a suspect was arrested today. https://t.co/xfNEaF549a https://t.co/tj8sanNmpg — PolitiTweet.org

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Law prof @JonathanTurley wrote an op-ed in the @nypost questioning a report about a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio who was forced to travel to Indiana for an abortion The column was printed with the URL "activist-tale-of-a-10-year-old-rape-victims-abortion-looks-like-a-lie" https://t.co/mRMTFUCtvF — PolitiTweet.org

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7. So this constitutional amendment is being voted on during the primary when unaffiliated voters are not used to showing up. This could skew the electorate and set the stage for the state to ban abortion even though most voters support abortion rights. https://t.co/3wJD3qRId8 — PolitiTweet.org

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6. That's why this constitutional amendment will appear during the Kansas PRIMARY. Most abortion opponents are found among Kansas' 851,882 Republicans. Abortion rights supporters are divided between Democrats (495,574) and unaffiliated voters (560,309) — PolitiTweet.org

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5. You might be surprised to learn that abortion rights are broadly popular in Kansas. A recent poll found that 62% of Kansas voters believe: "When it comes to abortion, women are in a better position than politicians to make their own choices about whether to get an abortion." — PolitiTweet.org

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4. Churches are generally prohibited from engaging in political campaign activity due to their tax-exempt status. The IRS, however, considers ballot initiatives "legislative activity." So this is a loophole that the Catholic Church is exploiting. https://t.co/3wJD3qRId8 — PolitiTweet.org