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OB-GYN who provided abortion for 10-year-old rape victim sues Republican Indiana AG
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OB-GYN who provided abortion for 10-year-old rape victim sues Republican Indiana AG
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After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, one of the most disturbing abortion-related post-Roe horror stories involved a ten-year-old rape victim — who was from Ohio but traveled to Indiana to get an abortion because of restrictions in her state. The Indianapolis-based OB-GYN who performed the abortion was Dr. Caitlin Bernard, and she is now suing Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, a Republican, for launching “overbroad” investigations of doctors providing abortions in his state.
According to CBS New reporter Melissa Quinn, “The lawsuit, filed by lawyer Kathleen DeLaney on behalf of Bernard and her medical partner Dr. Amy Caldwell in Indiana Commercial Court in Marion County, claims Rokita opened investigations into seven consumer complaints filed against Bernard after she came under scrutiny for performing the medication-induced abortion on June 30, days after the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade.”
Bernard, Quinn notes, was “thrust into the national spotlight after she told the Indianapolis Star that a child abuse doctor in Ohio had called her about the pregnant 10-year-old, who was seeking an abortion out of state due to Ohio’s near-total abortion ban.”
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“A man was arrested and charged with rape two weeks later,” Quinn explains. “Ohio’s abortion law, which bans the procedure once an embryonic heartbeat is detected, typically around six weeks of pregnancy, took effect after the Supreme Court issued its decision overturning Roe.”
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