I was interested in why you all were not particularly interested in the questions that have been raised about this story.

Because I like to toy with Orthodoxy.

None of that is really to the point though. I was interested in why you all were not particularly interested in the questions that have been raised about this story. Your response has given me my answer.

You do realize that the midwest is not a monolith?

In any event, to get back to Orthodoxy’s little thing: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. As has been noted, police in Indiana often do not file reports for community-policing calls, particularly where the call is unfounded. The call put in was about a minor being forced to have an abortion, and there was no such thing. Moreover, because it was a minor, a report may not have been filed because minors’ names are not released.

So, you could call up the Indianapolis PD until the cows come home, and the call would not show up in the published police reports. You might find references to it in the 911 records or the officers’ memo books, but neither of those will be readily-available public records.

Now, that doesn’t necessarily prove it happened, but it certainly doesn’t provide proof that it *didn’t* happen, either. Against that, you have Amanda’s conversation with someone from the Indiana PP confirming the details in the release. I give that credence because a) this is someone who was a witness or has spoken with witnesses to the incident; b) PP would have to be pretty stupid to be making this up and putting their name to it; and c) if PP were, in fact, making this up, you’d think we’d have heard defamation-suit noises from the CPC by now.

Life in the midwest can be mighty pleasant. Try adding “regionalism” to your litany of evils; racism, lookism, classism, and whatever else you think you are against.

I went to grad school in Iowa and the native lefties there were the most regioally bigoted of all.

Of course they were, if by “regionally bigoted” you mean “refusing to ignore a lifetime of experience and defer to the superior wisdom of someone who blew in for grad school.”

This whole thing is bogus, and by your slavish clinging to the non-facts, you’re making yourselves look… well… not too credible.