Peter Slevin on Caitlin Bernard, an Indiana ob-gyn who rose to fame when she was quoted as saying that she would be treating a ten-year-old, and the overturning of Roe.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita filed suit on Friday in federal court against the hospital system that employs Dr. Caitlin Bernard, the abortion provider who treated an unidentified, then-10-year-old rape victim from Ohio in the days after Roe fell. Rokita contends that Indiana University Health (IUH) and IU Healthcare Associates violated federal HIPPA law and state-level privacy law by standing by Bernard, who confirmed to the Indianapolis Star that she had treated a 10-year-old pregnant r
The Republican attorney general has been obsessed with going after Dr. Caitlin Bernard, even asking for a revocation of her medical license earlier this summer.