'That Kessler's judgment in this case aligned him with the right-wing propaganda machine should tell both Kessler and his readers something about his own credibility.'
as one example of people seeking abortions in Indiana from Ohio and Kentucky. In the piece, the journalists described how an Indianapolis obstetrician/gynecologist received the 10-year-old patient as a referral from a child abuse doctor in Ohio, where the state had recently banned nearly all abortions. Washington Post
's Kessler wrote that"the only source cited" was the doctor:"She's on the record, but there is no indication that the newspaper made other attempts to confirm her account." wouldn't give him any more information, and the doctor"declined to identify to the Fact Checker her colleague or the city where the child was located." Nor did Kessler's"spot check" of Ohio child service agencies turn up any confirmation of such a case.
Indeed, just a few months earlier, in a factcheck about a quote attributed to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that had one, anonymous source, Kessler considered the credibility of both the reporter and the source:"The attribution was a single source, but on the surface it appears to be a good one—a senior US official 'with direct knowledge of the conversation.'"reporters—one of whom is a 17-year veteran at the paper—or their source.
Finally, Kessler noted that an abortion for a 10-year-old"is pretty rare," since data show that in 2020,"52 people under the age of 15 received an abortion in Ohio." In other words, a case comparable to the one reported by the
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