https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7gemb/washington-post-columnist-invokes-relatives-having-been-raped-to-defend-botched-fact-check

This week, doctors who treated a 10-year-old rape survivor somehow became the villains in a right-wing morality play. That process was helped along by an incomplete “fact check” casting doubt on the truth of the child’s story written by Washington Post journalist Glenn Kessler, who even after the truth of the story was confirmed privately defended his own reporting on it by mentioning that he has relatives who are rape survivors.

Earlier this month, Dr. Caitlin Bernard told the Indianapolis Star that she treated the 10-year-old child, who was forced to flee from Ohio to Indiana for medical care because her preganacy was too advanced for an abortion to be legal in her home state. (While the Star did not report that Bernard performed an abortion, that was the clear implication.)