At least two more minors have been forced to travel out of state to terminate pregnancies resulting from rapes, according to medical staff’s affidavits filed in an ongoing lawsuit against Ohio’s attorney general.
The accounts, first reported on by the Ohio Capital-Journal, have emerged more than three months after the case of a 10-year-old Ohio sexual assault victim made national headlines when it was revealed she had to travel to Indiana to get an abortion. The Indianapolis Star reported that the girl was six weeks and three days pregnant and couldn’t get an abortion due to the state’s Heartbeat Law, which prevents medical staff from performing the procedure if a heartbeat is found.
