The case caused a stir across the Atlantic. Indiana authorities have announced they are investigating a gynecologist who helped a 10-year-old girl get an abortion after rape, a case that crystallizes debate over the U.S. Supreme Court’s radical overhaul.
Dr. Caitlin Bernard informed several media outlets in early July that she received the little girl in Indianapolis after being contacted by a colleague from Ohio.
In this northern state, a neighbor of Indiana, the decision of the Supreme Court, on June 24, to no longer guarantee the right to terminate a pregnancy, immediately allowed the entry into force of a law that prohibits abortion from of six weeks of gestation.
Two opposing camps
But the girl, raped in May by a man arrested on Tuesday, had exceeded that deadline. She therefore went to Indiana, where abortions remain legal until 21 weeks of pregnancy.
But Republican-majority state officials are hostile to abortion rights and are considering banning the procedure themselves.
Meanwhile, the state attorney general lashed out at Dr. Bernard on Wednesday night, accusing him of failing to report the girl’s case to authorities, as required by local pedophilia law.
“We have this pro-choice activist, who claims to be a doctor and is known for not filing the required reports,” Todd Rokita told Fox News.
“So we are gathering the information, the evidence, and we will fight to the end,” he continued, threatening to revoke “your professional license, if you don’t tell us.”
Joe Biden weighs in
This tragic case was cited by Democratic President Joe Biden on Friday to denounce the Supreme Court ruling. “Ten years! Raped, six weeks pregnant, already traumatized and now forced to go to another state!” He had choked.
But until the arrest of the suspect, the conservative press and several Ohio officials had expressed doubts about the veracity of the drama.
Now, opponents of abortion accuse the defenders of this right of “using” the girl to promote their cause and blame their misfortunes on Joe Biden’s immigration policy, his aggressor being an irregular Guatemalan immigrant.
“This horrible situation has been caused by Marxists, socialists and those in the White House who advocate a lawless border,” Indiana’s attorney general said Wednesday.
Source: BFM TV
