The right denied the story of a 10-year-old getting an abortion – it only gets worse

The Wall Street Journal called the horrifying ordeal too good to confirm', but no apologies came when a 27-year-old was arrested for the crime

Here's a sentence nobody should ever have to write: a 10-year-old Ohio girl was raped and then had to flee her state in order to have a safe and legal abortion. Instead of reacting with horror, Republican politicians and the rightwing media's first instinct was to claim the story, first published by the Indianapolis Star on July 1, was fake news. On Monday, for example, Ohio attorney general Dave Yost told Fox News that Every day that goes by the more likely that this [story] is a fabrication ... shame on the Indianapolis paper that ran this thing on a single source who has an obvious axe to grind." Fox News host Tucker Carlson called the incident not true" and his colleague Jesse Watters suggested it was a hoax.