Doctors are being harassed for providing legal abortions. Here's how one of them is fighting back.
, Ohio’s attorney general, publicly doubted the veracity of what happened to this 10-year-old child. Instead, this is a column about how some Republicans are trying to scare health care providers into refusing to perform abortions,Prominent Republicans, including Dave Yost, Ohio’s attorney general, publicly doubted the veracity of what happened to this 10-year-old child.
That's what happened when Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita went on national television and claimed that Dr. Caitlin Bernard, the Indiana doctor who performed the abortion for the 10-year-old rape victim had a “ ” abortions . Rokita said that if Bernard did in fact fail to report, that would amount to criminal behavior.Being wrongfully accused of illegal behavior by the attorney general of her state may actually be preferable to what Bernard endured last year, when the FBI uncovered a. The threat occurred after an anti-abortion group published certain identifying information about Bernard on its website.
But back to the case at hand. Threatening doctors with legal action seems to be the preferred method of scaring health care providers into not actually providing care. So perhaps it is only fair to threaten legal action against those who apparently defame health care providers who legally perform abortions.
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Ind. attorney general’s comments endangered abortion provider, complaint saysThe former dean of Indiana University Maurer School of Law accused Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) of legal misconduct for publicly casting doubts about whether a doctor complied with state law after helping a 10-year-old rape victim end a pregnancy.
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Indiana AG receives cease and desist letter from OBGYN docLawyer for doctor who provided abortion services to 10-year-old rape victim sends cease-and-desist letter to Indiana AG demanding he stop making 'false or misleading statements' about the physician. - MaddowBlog
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Doctor in 10-year-old’s abortion case takes 1st legal step against Indiana AGLawyer Kathleen DeLaney filed a notice of tort claim against Todd Rokita (R) on behalf of Caitlin Bernard for “false and misleading statements” about the OB/GYN in the days after she shared how she helped the 10-year-old, who traveled to Indiana for an abortion.
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Michigan’s Highest Paid Public Employee Is Now Vocally Anti-AbortionUniversity of Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh made his anti-abortion beliefs known over the weekend.
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