Doctor Who Performed 10-Year-Old’s Abortion Targeted by Bogus Complaints, Lawyers Say
Anti-abortion activists have sought to discredit Dr. Caitlin Bernard since she made national headlines this month after providing abortion services to an Ohio girl who was raped and traveled to Indiana to terminate her pregnancy.
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The Indiana doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim is being investigated by the state attorney general for ‘bogus’ consumer complaints by individuals who she says were never her patients, Reuters reports. Anti-abortion activists have sought to discredit Dr. Caitlin Bernard since she made national headlines this month in reports that she had provided abortion services to an Ohio girl who was raped and traveled to Indiana to terminate her pregnancy because of an Ohio law banning abortions.
Indiana’s Republican attorney general, Todd Rokita, said this month he was investigating whether she had abided by state laws requiring doctors to report the termination of a pregnancy and suspected cases of child abuse. Bernard’s attorneys filed notice on July 19 of their intention to sue Rokita for defamation since discovering information in the submitted consumer complaint forms highlighted by Rokita’s investigation that shows the individuals named “had no interaction with Dr. Bernard” and that five were residents of other states as far away as California.
