From WNYC Studios, it's Brian Lair, a daily politics podcast. It's Friday, July 15th.

Two events in the headlines that we can't ignore before we bring on Congressman Richie Torres. The 10-year-old girl in Ohio

who was raped and had to go to another state to get an abortion. Ohio's new abortion law,

if you haven't heard this yet, after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade,

Ohio's new abortion law does not include an exception

for rape or incest. So the 10-year-old girl went one state west to Indiana, and the reaction of the

Ohio and Indiana attorneys general to the case, Ohio's Republican Attorney General first called the report of

the rape a hoax, and now that somebody's been arrested and charged, has now had to eat his

words. And Indiana's Republican Attorney General, his first response was to announce an investigation

of the doctor who provided the abortion to the 10-year-old girl,

even though that's legal in Indiana, saying the doctor didn't report it.

But a new development on that part, that you might not have heard, the Fox affiliate in Indianapolis, Fox 59,

reports that it has obtained documents showing that the doctor,

an OBGYN, named Caitlin Bernard, actually did report the abortion to the Indiana Department

of Child Service and the Indiana Department of Health complying with the law.

But somehow that became the issue in Indiana rather than unqualified support for the

girl and her doctor. So that's one breaking story this morning that shows how extreme one party is.

The other, per the New York Times headline on the story, Mansion pulls plug on climate and tax talks, shrinking domestic

plan. I know that could have been a headline from about 363 of the days last year, but in today's

case, it says the West Virginia Democrats decision dealt a crushing blow to President Biden's

domestic agenda, effectively ruling out action

on anything beyond prescription, drug pricing, and health care subsidies.

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