INDIANAPOLIS: In the past few days, there has been a lot of news and debate about a 10-year-old girl from Ohio who was sexually assaulted and had to travel to Indiana to get an abortion from Dr. Caitlin Bernard, who runs an abortion clinic in Indiana.
However, now the case has hit a new headline that tells Bernand is now being probed. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita called OB-GYN Dr. Caitlin Bernard, who works out of two different clinics in Indiana, a “abortion activist acting as a doctor” who has “a history of failing to report” criminal incidents. This is what made the headline catch people’s attention.
Dr. Caitlin Bernard was required by Indiana law to report both the abortion and the abuse, which Rokita, a pro-life Republican, said in a statement on Thursday, July 14. “In Indiana, it is illegal not to do so, and her actions could also affect her license. Also, if there was a violation of HIPAA, that could change the next steps. I won’t give up my search for the truth.”
AG Rokita said in a letter that Bernard did not show any proof that the abortion or the abuse had been reported. Rokita also said that someone from the Attorney General’s office called the Indiana Department of Health and asked for all the Termination of Pregnancy Reports (TRPs) from the last 30 days so they could look into the 10-year-old girl’s reported abortion by Bernard. Bernard, however, did not give any TRPs.
Since 2017, Bernard, who is 37 years old and lives with her husband in a small two-story house just outside of Indianapolis, has spoken out for the right to abortion in more than 20 print and broadcast outlets. But, since the questions have surrounded her, she has not responded to any of them in regard to the probe. After Gershon Fuentes, the 27-year-old accuser, was arrested, Bernard finally spoke up. In a tweet, Bernard said, “My heart breaks for all people who have been sexually assaulted or abused.” “It makes me so sad that our country lets them down when they need us the most. People must be able to get the care they need from doctors when and where they need it.”
The Indianapolis Star first wrote about the case earlier this month. It said that a 10-year-old girl who had been raped went to Indiana for an abortion three days after it became illegal in her home state. On Monday, June 27, three days after the Supreme Court’s groundbreaking decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, an Ohio doctor who treats child abuse called Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist who performs abortions. At that time, the girl had been pregnant for six weeks and three days.
The case went viral quickly and became a big topic of conversation among people who support abortion rights, including President Joe Biden.
“Think about being that little girl,” Biden said as he criticized the high court’s decision on Friday, July 8. “I’m not kidding. Biden said, “Think about being that little girl. This isn’t some made-up horror. “It’s already going on. “Just last week, it was reported that a 10-year-old girl was raped, and she had to go to Indiana to try to get rid of the pregnancy and maybe save her life,” he said.
Biden didn’t like what the Supreme Court did. He said the justices were “out of control” and worked with “extremist elements of the Republican Party.” While Republicans turned down the case and said it wasn’t true. On Monday, July 11, one day before Fuentes was arrested, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said that there was “not a whisper of evidence” that a 10-year-old girl had been raped recently in the state.
Yost also said that the girl “did not have to leave Ohio to get treatment” because the state’s heartbeat law allows for exceptions like this one. But on Thursday, July 14, Ohio’s Legislative Service Commission wrote in a letter that, with only two exceptions, the state has banned all abortions, no matter how the baby was conceived or how old the mother is. 1) When a fetal heartbeat can’t be found, which is usually around six weeks, and 2) To keep a pregnant woman from dying or being seriously hurt. In the case of the 10-year-old girl, it is not known if a fetal heartbeat was found.