Dr. Caitlin Bernard, a reproductive healthcare provider, speaks during an abortion rights rally on Saturday, June 25, 2022, at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. Jenna Watson–The Indianapolis Star/AP
In the news. . .
July 15, 2022 7:29 PM EDT
The case of a 10-year-old girl who had to travel from her home in Ohio to Indiana to receive an abortion after being raped has become national news—and a major political issue following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The child, then nearly six-and-a-half weeks pregnant, could not legally receive an abortion in Ohio due to the state’s “fetal heartbeat” law, which went into effect after the Court abolished the constitutional right to an abortion. Her doctor phoned Indianapolis physician Dr. Caitlin Bernard, who agreed to perform the procedure. Bernard went public with the story in the Indianapolis Star.
The Columbus Police Department was informed about the child’s pregnancy on June 22, after the Franklin County’s Children Services agency filed a complaint, NPR reports.
Officers have since already arrested Gerson Fuentes, 27, who confessed to raping the girl at least twice. He is currently held at the Franklin County Jail on a $2 million bond. Detectives investigating the case collected Fuentes’ DNA to confirm his paternity, and he faces a potential life sentence if found guilty.
Why did it become national news?
The case was brought to national attention after Biden delivered impassioned remarks while signing an executive order to better protect access to abortion in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on July 8.
Biden called the Supreme Court’s decision “extreme.” Since Roe has been overturned, four states have banned abortion, with no exceptions for rape or incest, unless the mother’s life is at risk. “This isn’t some imagined horror,” Biden said. “It’s already happening. Just last week it was reported that a 10-year-old girl was a rape victim. And she was forced to have to travel outside the state to Indiana to seek to terminate the pregnancy.” https://time.com/6198062/rape-victim-10-abortion-indiana-ohio/
And now, for my take on this story: There is a saying that should be the opening statement in every argument: “Context is everything.”
Roe vs. Wade was constitutionally problematic from the start. It was a decision to keep the federal government out of our daily lives. At least that’s the shorthand version. In reality, it stated that laws could be written to curtail this procedure based on the “viability” of the fetus. In other words, if Oklahoma wanted to halt all abortions after the first trimester while Kansas wanted to halt them after the second trimester, that would be consistent with Roe. And if New York State wanted no restrictions on abortion, that would be legal as well.
The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution with an eye to limiting the power of the federal government. That’s what’s in the Bill of Rights, specifically the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. Federal power is constitutionally limited on purpose. Laws that impact us day to day are to be adjudicated by state where we have the most control.
Giving the federal government control over something like abortion could result in mandates we’ve seen in other countries like China with their one-child policy. Think something like that couldn’t happen here? In today’s climate, all bets are off. Baby girls were aborted or abandoned. You could say that baby girls were dispatched by law when you get right down to it.
In terms of context, this is a different world than it was in 1973. In the mid-70s, we didn’t have the morning-after pill that reduces the risk of pregnancy if started within 120 hours (five days).
Nor was there an abortion pill which can be taken up to 70 days after the fact.
I’m not advocating either, but the need for a surgical abortion is not the same as it was in 1973 when Roe vs Wade was passed.
Even in cases of rape where “children” are involved, there is a huge difference between a 10-year-old child and a 15-year-old teenager, and yet Roe enthusiasts often lump them together in the stats for their arguments.
They also lump together stats which say 14 states have “total” abortion bans when there are exceptions. Oklahoma is an example.
Oklahoma is also an example of how the people at the state level have more control over abortion than they would over the federal government if, let’s say, the globalists, who want zero births, were to take over like they did in China when they dictated what kind of baby you were allowed to have. https://apnews.com/article/abortion-oklahoma-ban-overturns-supreme-court-7fd43143fa0580460e09a9796ec30a82
Another thing abortion advocates fail to mention is that non-surgical options are available everywhere. If a 10-year-old child was raped, why would you go to another state and miss the deadline? https://www.thenationalherald.com/you-cant-have-it-both-ways/
President Biden said, “The girl was an example of how new abortion restrictions were already harming the most vulnerable people.”
This sounds contrived to me. I would not put it past abortion enthusiasts to stage something like this to manipulate the public. The situation could have been addressed immediately by walking into a pharmacy.
The morning-after pill is available in Ohio. I checked.
When it comes to cases like this, right to life advocates tend to shy away from mandating anything. Not saying this is right or wrong. Just saying it’s true. Few are like Jim Bopp, an Indiana lawyer and general counsel for the National Right to Life, who believes a 10-year-old should have carried a child to term. But that doesn’t stop them from using him as the “poster child” for anti-abortionists.
In truth, many who oppose abortion are talking about surgical abortions that are done on an assembly line basis as a form of birth control. Dramatically lowering the surgical abortion rate is the goal.
Something both Biden and Bopp are deliberately overlooking.
Roe vs Wade (which thanks to the Dobbs vs Jackson decision) has turned into a mechanism that only serves the person who heads the executive branch, which is currently inhabited by a globalist (and may be occupied by another), who does not care what the majority of the American people think. At any time, Biden could overturn the Hyde Amendment, a legislative provision that prohibits the use of federal funds for abortion services, and the entire country would have to pay for something many of us find abhorrent. That’s where they’re going with this.
At the state level, the voice of the people can be heard. People are not inhuman. (It would be an oxymoron if we were!) The stats are designed to mislead. Most of the 14 states with “total bans” have exceptions, like in Oklahoma, so the term doesn’t really mean what it suggests.
When you change anything, it takes a period of time to kind of settle on something that makes sense to later take its place. Hopefully, when all is said and done, we’ll see far fewer surgical abortions (Guttmacher reported 930,160 were performed in 2020) as women gravitate to other means to manage their reproductive needs.
Brendan says
QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
Sasha Latypove: “Instead of sewer rats,
now we have the CDC doing the same thing.”
“ALL VACCINES PRIME ILLNESS BY INJECTING FOREIGN PROTEINS”
https://rumble.com/v5dx2yd-all-vaccines-prime-illness-by-injection-of-food-proteins.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
[Video – 59:06]
‘ INDUCING ANAPHYLAXIS OVER THE LIFESPAN: Analyst Sasha Latypova, in collaboration with Katherine Watt, found that the crimes are in the vaccine additives! The entire vaccine operation is about injecting FOREIGN PROTEINS IN THE FORM OF FOOD PROTEINS, this is how the peanut allergy explosion happened. This is a multi-prong attack, if you ever needed proof to discourage people from continuing with vaccines, this is it. ‘
Brendan says
“World Economic Forum finally tells the truth about Covid:
It was a ‘test’ of our obedience to rapidly forming new world order”
https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/world-economic-forum-finally-tells?r=qrouj&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
“They wanted to know how many people would comply
with a complete re-ordering of their lives based on no science at all,
just random orders, some of which bordered on absurdity.”
Leo Hohmann
Sep 06, 2024
‘ I have long said that Covid 19 was launched by design by a small number of people in the globalist predator class for one reason and one reason only — as a beta test for the coming technocratic new world order.
Now, we’ve got the World Economic Forum coming out and all but admitting that was exactly why the Covid-19 “pandemic” had to happen.
The WEF gleefully posted the following snippet to the “My Carbon” page of its website where they make a pitch for so-called smart cities, which is just another term for 15-minute cities.
The first of three “developments” that the WEF says must be in place before the world can evolve into its utopian vision of “smart and sustainable cities,” is compliance with restrictions on our freedom. It writes:
1. COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility – A huge number of unimaginable restrictions for public health were adopted by billions of citizens across the world. There were numerous examples globally of maintaining social distancing, wearing masks, mass vaccinations and acceptance of contact-tracing applications for public health, which demonstrated the core of individual social responsibility.
They were testing us. That’s what Covid was all about. They wanted to see how many of us would give up our individual freedom and individual sovereignty by complying with a “new normal” that consisted of restrictions bordering on the absurd. Why, for instance was it “safe” to shop at Lowe’s or Home Depot but unsafe to shop at a small business or attend church? Why was it OK to go to strip clubs in Michigan but you couldn’t buy seeds for a garden?
What the WEF is implying with its above statement is that in order to be “sustainable,” people and societies will need to be compliant with a new more authoritarian global order. Don’t ask questions. Don’t resort to logic. Just obey.
Would we be obedient in the face of idiotic new laws and regulations, like wearing face diapers to stop what was said to be an aerosolized virus, and standing six feet apart in public, and submitting to a never-before-used, unlicensed mRNA gene-based injection? They said it was good for you, so roll up your sleeve. Don’t ask questions. If you did, you could lose your job and be treated as a societal outcast. Many people lost friends or even close family members to this monstrous “test” of our willingness to unquestioningly do what we’re told.
Nearly five years later, arguably the most powerful nonprofit public-private partnership in the world, the WEF, admits it was all a test of our wills and celebrates the fact that most of us failed the test (or passed with flying colors depending how you look at it).
They wanted to find out how many of us would prove our servitude to the lawless, fascistic beast system by complying with “unimaginable restrictions,” many of which were created out of thin air with absolutely no scientific evidence to back them up as contributing anything to public health.
The U.S. government’s top health bureaucrat, Dr. Anthony Fauci, admitted recently that there was no science behind his decision to require Americans to socially distance six feet apart.
They just wanted to see how many of us would prove our fealty to the “authorities,” people wearing white coats or suits and ties. … ‘
Brendan says
They want the children…
“There are no licensed COVID shots for kids under 12 –
but CDC wants babies to get 3 Pfizer shots by 9 months”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/there-are-no-licensed-covid-shots-for-kids-under-12-but-cdc-wants-babies-to-get-3-pfizer-shots-by-9-months/?utm_source=most_recent&utm_campaign=catholic
‘ (Children’s Health Defense) — Nine-month-old babies must receive multiple doses of an unlicensed mRNA COVID-19 vaccine to be considered “up to date” with their COVID-19 vaccination, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The CDC’s updated guidance, issued August 30, states that children – as young as 6 months old – should get either two doses of the 2024-2025 Moderna vaccine or three doses of the 2024-2025 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
If getting the new Pfizer shot, the baby is supposed to receive the first dose at 6 months, the second dose three weeks later and the third dose at least eight weeks after the second dose – meaning, that by 9 months old, babies are supposed to have received three Pfizer shots.
If getting the latest Moderna shot, the CDC recommends babies get the first dose at age 6 months and the second dose a month later.
The latest Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 shots for children under 12 are unlicensed in the U.S. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted only emergency use authorization (EUA) for the vaccines.
Children’s Health Defense (CHD) CEO Mary Holland told The Defender, “The earlier COVID shots have been proven unsafe and ineffective. Now we’re asked to believe that newer versions are miraculously safe and effective?”
“This is an insult to people’s intelligence,” she said, “I pray that parents will have the good sense to say no to these dangerous and unnecessary shots for babies.”
As of July 28, 37,814 deaths following COVID-19 vaccination had been reported to VAERS, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, run by the FDA and CDC.
Of those, 187 reports were for children and teens under 18. Nearly 13,000 reports listed the age as “unknown.”
VAERS analyst and expert Albert Benavides recently told The Defender he believes VAERS is “throttling” and underreporting deaths of all ages following COVID-19 vaccination.
Meanwhile, the CDC continues to tell the public that COVID-19 vaccines are “safe and effective.”
CDC ‘absolutely misleading’ public on safety of EUA vaccines
Holland said the CDC is “absolutely misleading” the public by asserting that COVID-19 EUA vaccines are safe and effective because EUA vaccines are not held to the same safety or efficacy standards as licensed vaccines.
“By law,” she explained, “EUA products ‘may be effective,’ and they have not undergone the safety testing required to permit licensing.”
“This is one more horrific example of the CDC putting profits before people and acting as an unethical arm of Big Pharma’s marketing operation,” Holland added.
CHD Chief Scientific Officer Brian Hooker agreed. “It is criminal that these untested vaccines are being recommended to infants and children, especially given the fraudulent tactics to market them to an unsuspecting public,” Hooker told The Defender.
There’s no licensed COVID vaccine for kids under 12
There are still no licensed COVID-19 vaccines available for children under 12, Hooker said – so all COVID-19 vaccines given to young kids are EUA products.
The FDA’s website on EUA for medical products states that EUA vaccines only have to meet the standard of “may be effective” as long as if, “based on the totality of the scientific evidence, it is reasonable to believe that the product may be effective for the specified use.”
“The ‘may be effective’ standard for EUAs provides for a lower level of evidence than the ‘effectiveness’ standard that FDA uses for product approvals,” the website states.
Before a vaccine can be fully licensed, the vaccine maker typically is required to conduct numerous clinical trials to demonstrate that the product is safe. However, the safety requirements for EUA are more flexible.
According to the FDA:
The amount and type(s) of safety information that FDA recommends be submitted as part of a request for an EUA will differ depending upon a number of factors, including whether the product is approved for another indication and, in the case of an unapproved product, the product’s stage of development.
Despite this, the first statement on the CDC’s “6 Things to Know about COVID-19 Vaccination for Children” says, “COVID-19 vaccination for children is safe.”
Risks outweigh benefits for kids
Hooker said the CDC’s actions are especially problematic as, historically, the meaning of “safe” has been interpreted by regulatory authorities as meaning that the benefits of a drug outweigh its risks.
“With the risk to children of dying from a COVID-19 infection being statistically zero, it is unclear if there is any benefit,” he said.
Meanwhile, the CDC still claims that “while adverse reactions are rare, the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the known risks of COVID-19 and possible severe complications.”
Pfizer fact sheet more forthcoming about risks
For licensed vaccines, the CDC typically provides an official vaccine information statement (VIS) that describes the vaccine’s risks and potential benefits.
According to the CDC website, “Federal law requires that healthcare staff provide a VIS to a patient, parent, or legal representative before each dose of certain vaccines.”
However, for EUA COVID-19 vaccines, the CDC directs people to “fact sheets” – produced by the vaccine manufacturer, not the CDC, and authorized by the FDA – which detail the product’s risks and benefits.
There is no federal law requiring healthcare providers to share these fact sheets with patients, or parents of minors, before a COVID-19 vaccination.
“Pfizer’s own ‘fact sheet’ for its latest COVID-19 vaccine appears to give a more accurate picture [of the vaccine’s risks] than the CDC’s own websites,” Hooker said. “Shouldn’t the CDC be more a watchdog than Pfizer?”
For example, Pfizer’s fact sheet states, “A product authorized for emergency use has not undergone the same type of review by FDA as an FDA-approved product.”
The Pfizer fact sheet also acknowledges that its vaccine “may not protect everyone” and that reported side effects associated with the Pfizer vaccines include myocarditis and pericarditis.
Hooker pointed out that research has shown that vaccine-induced myocarditis, inflammation of the heart, and pericarditis, inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart, can be fatal.
He urged parents to “read between the lines” when assessing the CDC’s COVID-19 vaccination recommendation for babies and children.
“Most of all,” he added, “use common sense to decide if the CDC’s and the FDA’s logic is sound.”
This article was originally published by The Defender – Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Please consider subscribing to The Defender or donating to Children’s Health Defense. ‘
George Michalopulos says
This is horrifying and any doctor who goes along with this program NOW should be brought up on charges. Surprisingly, there are doctors who think this is just a FB thing. They still don’t know.
Brendan says
“This is PROOF that Ireland has COLLAPSED into
a pile of Wokeness | Redacted w Natali Morris”
https://rumble.com/v5dk1e5-this-is-proof-that-ireland-has-collapsed-into-a-pile-of-wokeness-redacted-w.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
[Video – 11:44]
Ireland jumped from the frying pan of Roman Catholicism
into the fire of atheism, over the RC paedophile scandals.
Now the schools are training children to be victims of abuse.
But not everyone is on board with this.
Enoch walks with Truth.
PS: Ireland (as in ‘Republic of’ or ‘Eire’) is not in the UK
George Michalopulos says
All I can say is this: is this what all those Irish patriots who fought for Irish republicanism?
Brendan says
Perhaps all is not yet lost, George.
Conor McGregor is now a candidate for President.
Read his declaratiuon of intent on:
Steve Turley | Conor McGregor Is Running for
PRESIDENT as Irish Populism SURGES!!!
https://rumble.com/v5dsiuj-conor-mcgregor-is-running-for-president-as-irish-populism-surges.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
[Video – 09:52]
🙂
Brendan says
“Man who raped, impregnated Columbus girl in abortion case gets life sentence”
Jordan Laird | The Columbus Dispatch
https://eu.dispatch.com/story/news/courts/2023/07/05/gerson-fuentes-due-in-court-on-charges-he-raped-10-yr-old-columbus-girl-who-got-abortion-in-indiana/70358517007/
‘ A little more than a year after a 10-year-old Columbus girl made national news because she had to travel from Ohio to Indiana for an abortion, the man who was charged with raping and impregnating her has admitted to his crime and was sentenced to life in prison.
… a Guatemalan national who has a Columbus address, pleaded guilty to two counts of rape Wednesday afternoon in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.
Assistant Franklin County Prosecutor Dan Meyer said the plea was in exchange for a jointly recommended prison sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after a minimum of 25 years. …
Common Pleas Court Judge Julie Lynch was not required to abide by the recommendation.
Lynch said the girl’s family “begged” her to agree to the jointly recommended sentence, a “very hard pill for this court to swallow,” she said. …
“Anyone who’s ever been in this courtroom for the last 20 years knows how this court feels about these babies, young people, being violated,” Lynch said. “However, today, by the request of the family, this court will be sentencing without comment and everyone knows how hard that’s going to be. Because the court considers this the worst of the offense.” …
How often are children sexually assaulted?
The girl’s public case led to a conversation about the taboo topic of sexual assault and abuse of children.
After the girl’s existence was confirmed, some sought to paint her story as a tragic anomaly. The Dispatch and the Cincinnati Enquirer, a Gannett sister newspaper, investigated how many children are victims of sexual abuse in Ohio and found it common.
The Dispatch and Enquirer findings showed that more than 22,000 children were listed as sexual violence victims in Ohio law enforcement reports between 2017 and 2021. Of those, more than 12,000 victims were 12 years old or younger. … ‘
Luke 17:2 [KJV]
“It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck,
and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.”
George Michalopulos says
The hypocrisy of the pro-abortion “women’s movement” is astonishing to me. They always bring up the “young girl who was raped by X” as their trump card.
Here’s a thought: how about punishing the “rapist” to the fullest extent of the law? In an earlier time, that would include hanging.
But they don’t want tp dp that do they? All of a sudden, all these man-hating feminazis are clutching their pearls and fainting onto a couch as if they were in a Victorian-era melodrama.
Brendan says
Hard cases make for bad law.
Gail Sheppard says
OH doesn’t have the best reputation when it comes to children. I remember when there was a month where 30 kids went missing.
I had a housekeeper for something like 15 years. I used to joke that Christina was my “wife” because she took care of my home and and my family as if they were hers. In every way that mattered, we were one family. When her children later joined her, we took care of them, too. Although they lived with their grandparents, they would come and go in our house. I did things like enroll them in school, got them healthcare, and generally did the things that would have been harder for their mother. I made sure they had what they needed to acclimate. In a very real sense, I thought of her children as mine so you can imagine how I felt when I learned her daughter had gotten pregnant by a 28-year-old man when she was barely 16. Although this was statutory rape in every regard, the attorney general didn’t think it worth pursuing. The guy bailed on her and she wanted an abortion. This was during the time we were told it’s “just a few cells.” I wasn’t in the Church or in any church at the time. Her mom, however, was Catholic. She couldn’t bring herself to do what I ended up doing for her. We didn’t see any other way. Her daughter could barely take care of herself, let alone a child. (Which is why you should never look at the surrounding circumstances when you make decisions like this. It wasn’t the sort of thing I thought I needed to ask God. I never had had an abortion, but in every way I am guilty of helping this young woman get her’s. How could she raise a child? She hadn’t even gotten to the point where she could manage her own life. By way of example, a month later she got pregnant again! Same guy. She had the means to avoid it but didn’t use them. However, this time she kept the baby and not only did she raise her, her daughter turned out to be an extraordinary human being in every way it counts. Last I heard, she had gotten her PhD. – If all this isn’t a cautionary tale in what NOT to do, I don’t know what is. Had I been in the Church, I would have known better, which probably has something to do with why the Church having a presence in this country is so important to me. People don’t always know what to do. The Church does.)
The Ohio Department of Health indicated that there were 52 abortions that took place in children age 15 or younger in 2020, down from the 63 that were recorded in 2019. This represents 0.4%. Teenage pregnancy being what it is, I suspect there are more on the “teenage” side of the spectrum than on the 10 year-old side but how would we know? https://time.com/6198062/rape-victim-10-abortion-indiana-ohio/
The police have reported they have received over 400 reports of rape or sexual assault against kids ages 15 or younger during a given year. In other places they say there were 172. https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/218-children-15-years-and-under-report-rape-sexual-assault/
To get a handle on this to address it, it would be helpful if they all defined things the same way so the numbers were more consistent.
A number of central Ohio authority figures – including an athletic director at Bloom-Carroll Local Schools, a Catholic priest in Columbus, and a teacher at Upper Arlington City Schools – were accused of or indicted on child sex abuse charges. The recidivism rate being what it is, it’s possible that they know who the culprits are.
I was targeted by a coach at my high school when I was 15. This was back in the day when kids were brought up to believe that if anything bad happened at school, it was the kid’s fault. At least that’s the way my mother, a teacher, always looked at it. I avoided this coach as best I could but his interest in me carried over into my junior and senior year when he told the football team that if anyone of them dates me, they would be kicked off the team. He’d stop me at the door of dances and would send me and my boyfriend home just because. After awhile, I stopped trying to participate in anything.
One day, he followed me to the mall, pulled up beside my car, and insisted I get into his car. I just drove away and from that point forward, I was excluded from every event including my own prom. My boyfriend, who was on the football team, liked football more than me, so that was over. – I always thought it was because of something I was doing. Decades later, it crossed my mind that I couldn’t have been the only one so I created a FB page asking if there were other girls out there whom he targeted, as well. 5 women came forward with their own stories! Some not as lucky as I was in avoiding him. I was so enraged I called the police. This was long after he was dead! The police, of course, could do nothing but it made me feel better. They did, however, contact the school and suggest they have a program to assist girls in coming forward in these situations. I imagine the girls today are way more savvy than we were back then, but you never know. When a person in authority tells you to do something, studies show you’re going to do it; highly replicated studies like the Milgram Experiment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Again, I think we could do more if we knew more. An effort should be made to define terms. Each age should be represented because at age 10, a girl is a child, but at age 15, she’s a young woman. At 15, I was babysitting 10-year-olds! Lumping them altogether in one age group isn’t helpful when you want to understand what’s happening. Plus, teenagers are known to have managed motherhood at age 15. And many, of course, were not raped. But at age 10? That’s like a whole different ballgame!
Brendan says
“…it would be helpful if they all defined things the same way
so the numbers were more consistent.”
That would tend to detract from whatever
political point they wished to advance…