Indiana AG eyes criminal prosecution of 10-year-old rape victim’s abortion doc – By Alice Miranda Ollstein (Politico) / July 14, 2022
“Certainly, it’s an intimidation tactic,” said Fabiola Carrión, the director of reproductive and sexual health at the National Health Law Program.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is threatening criminal charges against the doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape survivor from Ohio — a major escalation in the ongoing saga that has put the midwestern state on the frontlines of the post-Roe war.
A new letter from Rokita to Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb dated Wednesday but released publicly on Thursday asks for records from the Indiana Department of Health and the Department of Child Services to determine whether the physician — Caitlin Bernard with Indiana University — filed the legally required reports within the three-day window of performing the abortion.
Rokita alleges that the two state agencies have not adequately responded to his request to find out if Bernard has filed the appropriate records.
If an investigation now underway determines that the report was not filed or not filed in time, the letter warns, Bernard could face “criminal prosecution and licensing repercussions.”
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