Dr. Caitlin Bernard, the Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist who provided an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio, is suing Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, alleging he has relied on "baseless" consumer complaints to launch "overbroad" investigations into physicians who provide abortion care, and issued subpoenas seeking the confidential medical records of their patients, reported CBS News.
The lawsuit, filed by lawyer Kathleen DeLaney on behalf of
Bernard and her medical partner Dr. Amy Caldwell in Indiana Commercial Court in
Marion County, claims Rokita opened investigations into seven consumer
complaints filed against Bernard after she came under scrutiny for performing
the medication-induced abortion on June 30, days after the Supreme Court reversed
Roe v. Wade.
Bernard was thrust into the national spotlight after
she told the Indianapolis Star that a child abuse doctor
in Ohio had called her about the pregnant 10-year-old, who was seeking an
abortion out of state due to Ohio's near-total abortion ban. A man was arrested and
charged with rape two weeks later. Ohio's abortion law, which bans the
procedure once an embryonic heartbeat is detected, typically around six weeks
of pregnancy, took
effect after the Supreme Court issued its decision overturning Roe.
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