With the U.S. Supreme Court having overturned "Roe v. Wade" after 49 years, the United States no longer has a national standard on abortion rights, but rather, a wide range of state laws — and on July 1, the "Indianapolis Star" reported that a ten-year-old Ohio girl had an abortion in Indianapolis, Indiana because of abortion restrictions in her own state. Other media outlets reported that she was allegedly raped, and on July 13, the "Columbus Dispatch" reported that a man had been arrested and charged in the case.
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California, during a July 14 hearing, discussed the case with anti-abortion activist Catherine Glenn Foster, president and CEO of Americans United for Life — and Foster denied, much to Swallwell's shock, that the pregnancy's termination qualified as an abortion.
