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Sunday, July 3rd, 2022

As Ohio Restricts Abortions, 10-Year-Old Girl Travels to Indiana for Procedure

Author:     Shari Rudavsky and Rachel Fradette
Source:     Indianapolis Star / Cincinnati Enquirer
Publication Date:     2 July 2022 | 7:38 ET
 Link: As Ohio Restricts Abortions, 10-Year-Old Girl Travels to Indiana for Procedure
Stephan:   You thought those stories of pregnant 11-year-olds needing an abortion were abstract hypotheticals? They are not, and here is the proof, and it's a 10 years old girl to boot. This is what America has come to.
Vivian Skovgard protests ouotside the Women’s Medicial Center in Kettering, Ohio Credit: Cincinnati Enquirer

On Monday three days after the Supreme Court issued its groundbreaking decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist, took a call from a colleague, a child abuse doctor in Ohio.

Hours after the Supreme Court action, the Buckeye state had outlawed any abortion after six weeks. Now this doctor had a 10-year-old patient in the office who was six weeks and three days pregnant.

Could Bernard help?

Indiana lawmakers are poised to further restrict or ban abortion in mere weeks. The Indiana General Assembly will convene in a special session July 25 when it will discuss restrictions to abortion policy along with inflation relief.

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But for now, the procedure still is legal in Indiana. And so the girl soon was on her way to Indiana to Bernard’s care.

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Sunday, July 3, 2022 at 6:58 pm

    The lack of the ability to get an abortion is an abomination of a human freedom denied by the Supreme Court which has become overrun by Republicans who are not doing their jobs with the Honor which is expected of them.