Few more quick post-Dobbs thoughts

First? Post-Dobbs, allegedly (important), vasectomy and tube-tying are surging in red states.

That story about the pregnant 10-year-old girl in Ohio reportedly denied an abortion there? I'm not saying it's not true, but per Glenn Kessler ... it comes off as iffy. And I'm more skeptical than him. The Indiana doctor to whom the girl was allegedly referred is the only source. She calls Ohio doctor a "child abuse doctor" according to Kessler. (He has the phrase in quotes himself.) I've never heard such a phrase used before. As I a newspaper editor know, said doctor in Ohio should have reported this to law enforcement. No such reports show up in Ohio's larger metro areas, says Kessler. Dr. Caitlin Bernard, the Indy doctor, won't name the name of the Ohio doc, or even where they're located. Again, I'm not saying it's untrue, but it is "iffy." 

I pulled both out of the Roundup for the week for bits of additional thought.

At one time, I would have said that libruls, or even left-librulz, at least those inside the duopoly, need to have their factual ducks in a row. Well, in the MAGA world, even if that mattered moderately with some Republicans in the past, it doesn't today.

Morally, though, you still need your facts in a row. 

Update on the Ohio-Indiana story: Ohio police have arrested Gerson Fuentes, who reportedly has confessed to the sexual assault. That WSJ piece is a long correction, and it gets a kudo. Judd Legum says the initial pall of high-level skepticism was all a right-wing smear campaign. My skepticism was not, and it came, per the original link about this piece, from Maddow's website. That said, with hindsight, especially over the antics of Ohio state AG Dave Yost, I can't blame Dr. Bernard for not naming the Ohio doctor.