AG: Penalize doctor who spoke of Ohio 10-year-old's abortion

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-biden-health-indianapolis-indiana-e73ecf4f60ed68f1ad1d11db7c223359

AG: Penalize doctor who spoke of Ohio 10-year-old’s abortion
By TOM DAVIES and ARLEIGH RODGERS

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s Republican attorney general on Wednesday asked the state medical licensing board to discipline an Indianapolis doctor who has spoken publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled from Ohio after its more-restrictive abortion law took effect.

The complaint alleges Dr. Caitlin Bernard violated state law by not reporting the girl’s child abuse to Indiana authorities and violated patient privacy laws by telling a newspaper reporter about the girl’s treatment.

That account sparked a national political uproar in the weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, with some news outlets and Republican politicians falsely suggesting Bernard fabricated the story and President Joe Biden nearly shouting his outrage over the case during a White House event.

Bernard and her lawyers maintain the girl’s abuse had already been reported to Ohio police and child protective services officials before the doctor ever saw the child. A 27-year-old man has been charged in Columbus, Ohio, with raping the girl.

Bernard’s lawyers argue Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, who is stridently anti-abortion, has been spreading false or misleading information about the doctor with his investigation allegations for several months.

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[spooky3]

1. This guy needs to sit down and STFU. Nt

[gratuitous]

2. There's only two things wrong with those two allegations

Neither one of them is true. So I guess it's just one thing wrong; the same thing.

But I'm glad to see that the "aaaaahhhh! Panic! Flee for your lives" national crime wave that Republicans obsessed about for most of this year has subsided so much in Indiana that the AG has time to spend on this foolishness.

[Mad_Machine76]

3. I loathe Rokita

Not that Indiana Republicans are decent by any means but compared to some of them he is particularly gross.

[MissMillie]

4. Wow... he's really dug-in on this.

I wonder why?











(https://gofund.me/6f42a1e1 - Audry's vet bills. Yeah, I'm still working on that....)

[intheflow]

5. The State AG is an elected position.

Wouldn't want to piss off GQP donors by letting this doctor "get away" with baby killing. Everything a Republican does is for their own money and power.