Daughter of doctor who gave 10-year-old an abortion faced kidnapping threat

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/15/indiana-caitlin-bernard-doctor-abortion

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The Indiana doctor who recently provided an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim whose story has garnered national attention faced serious threats in the past and is named on an extreme anti-abortion website linked to Amy Coney Barrett before she was a supreme court justice.

Dr Caitlin Bernard testified last year, in a case involving abortion restrictions in Indiana, that she was forced to stop providing first-trimester abortions at a clinic in South Bend. She stopped the procedures after she was alerted by Planned Parenthood – who in turn had been alerted by the FBI – that a kidnapping threat had been made against her daughter.

The Guardian reported in January that the names of six abortion providers, as well as their educational backgrounds and places of work, were listed on the website of an extreme anti-abortion group called Right to Life Michiana, in a section of the website titled “Local Abortion Threat”. Bernard was among the list of doctors named on the extremist website.

Barrett, who voted to overturn Roe v Wade last month, signed a two-page advertisement published by the group in 2006, while she was working as a professor at Notre Dame. It stated that those who signed “oppose abortion on demand and defend the right to life from fertilization to natural death”. The second page of the ad called Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion, “barbaric”. The advertisement was published in the South Bend Tribune by St Joseph County Right to Life, which merged with Right to Life Michiana in 2020.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. GOP is at war with American women and women's health care providers.

This will teach women their correct place in the new patriarchal hierarchy.

[dlk]

2. This comes from many years of giving a nudge, nudge, wink, wink to the right-wing extremists

Their cancer on our democracy has metastasized and we continue to sweep it under the rug at our peril. It's not a free society if people are subject to kidnapping and death threats from those who disagree with them.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[gratuitous]

4. Well, I'm sure Republicans will be out in force to denounce and disassociate with these extremists

Oh, just any day/month/year/millennium now.