case, dr. caitlin bernard, the indianapolis-based physician who took care of the young girl, she s been the target of threats and smears including from indiana s republican attorney general, who said he ll be investigating her. none of this is new to dr. bernard, or to many other abortion providers. they ve been the targets of threats for years, back in 2020, doctor bernard stopped offering her services to a clinic after the fbi alerted her employers that a kidnapping threat had been made against her daughter. there is in fact a long history of violence against abortion providers in this country. according to the national abortion federation, there have been 11 murders, nearly 500 assaults, 42 bombings, and 196 artisans directed at abortion clinics and at volunteers since 1977. the threat of violence has been increasing for years. last week, tammy coleman oscar, the director of north dakota s last remaining abortion clinic spoke of the threats that her clinics have recently e
and ob/gyn in texas also told the ap that doctors whose patients developed pregnancy complications are struggling to determine whether a woman s, quote, sick enough, sick enough, to justify an abortion. joining me now is she is the senior correspondent for new york magazine and coauthor of the book, notorious rpg, the life and times of ruth bader ginsburg. thank you so much for joining me. i appreciate it. yesterday you tweeted about specifically about the women in ohio, the up topic pregnancies, whose doctor wouldn t treat them in a thread related to that you wrote, quote, every predicted worst-case scenario has already shown up in the reporting, plus a few i never even heard anyone warned of. that line kind of caught me. i ve been reporting on this for a while. what s caught you by surprise and what were you referring to in that we? well, sam, you know, i