Opinion | How story of a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim reflects the post-Roe world Fox News wanted - The Washington Post

… "Ohio's heartbeat law has a medical emergency exception, broader than just the life of the mother," Yost told Watters. "She — this young girl — if she exists, and if this horrible thing actually happened to her, breaks my heart to think about it — she did not have to leave Ohio to find treatment." 

Elizabeth Nash, principal policy associate for state issues with the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights, points out that the exception for medical emergency (see text here) doesn't encompass the circumstances of the 10-year-old rape victim. "The medical emergency exception doesn't include rape and incest," Nash told the Erik Wemple Blog on Thursday. "It just doesn't. It's really disingenuous for [Yost] to have made this comment."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/14/10-year-old-rape-story-fox-news-criticism/