'Attacks on reproductive freedom look like doctors being attacked and harassed for doing their job and providing essential abortion care,' said one advocacy group.
Reproductive rights advocates on Thursday came to the defense of Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Indianapolis who provided a 10-year-old girl with abortion care last year, as Bernard faced a disciplinary hearing before Indiana's state medical licensing board.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, a Republican, launched an investigation into the doctor last July after she provided a legal abortion to the patient, who had been denied care in her home state of Ohio. Bernard learned of the rape victim from an Ohio doctor shortly after the state enacted a six-week abortion ban following the U.S.
;“Voight rephrases the question, then she responds: If attorney general Todd Rokita had not chosen to make this his political stunt, we wouldn;’t be here today.;”
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