An attorney for an obstetrician-gynecologist in Indiana has issued a cease-and-desist letter to the state’s Republican attorney general who threatened to bring criminal charges against her following a report that she provided care to a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio.
Dr Caitlin Bernard reportedly provided care to the girl a week after Ohio officials – hours after the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v Wade – enacted a measure that outlaws abortion care at roughly six weeks of pregnancy and makes no exception for pregnancies from rape or incest.
