Indiana doctor reprimanded for talking publicly about Ohio 10-year-old's abortion

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By Tom Davies an hour ago

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana board decided Thursday night to reprimand an Indianapolis doctor after finding that she violated patient privacy laws by talking publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from neighboring Ohio.

The state Medical Licensing Board voted that Dr. Caitlin Bernard didn’t abide by privacy laws when she told a newspaper reporter about the girl’s treatment in a case that became a flashpoint in the national abortion debate days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer.

The board, however, rejected accusations from Indiana’s Republican attorney general that Bernard violated state law by not reporting the child abuse to Indiana authorities. Board members chose to fine Bernard $3,000 for the violations, turning down a request from the attorney general’s office to suspend Bernard’s license. The board issued no restrictions on her practice of medicine.

Bernard has consistently defended her actions, and she told the board on Thursday that she followed Indiana’s reporting requirements and hospital policy by notifying hospital social workers about the child abuse — and that the girl’s rape was already being investigated by Ohio authorities. Bernard’s lawyers also said that she didn’t release any identifying information about the girl that would break privacy laws.




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[Marthe48]

1. Dr. Bernard is a hero

She saved a child's life. Damn the oppresive slavers who wanted that child to die.

[SouthernDem4ever]

2. And the Indiana AG is just a big asshole

Typical repuglican.

[Stargazer99]

3. We the people need to start an organization to protect doctors from power hungry Republicans

The doctor was only trying to keep the child from death a 10 yr olds body cannot handle pregnancy, how about the life of the 10yrs old and many other women who might die from carrying a child?Pro life, who in the hell are you kidding?

[lark]

4. Fuck Indiana and their forced birthing hate for women!

[walkingman]

5. Fuck all backwards ass Republicans or better yet don't fuck them. ☮

[lark]

6. Yep, good idea.

I've never dated a repug, so never even came close to having sex with one of those untouchables. Yay.

[raging moderate]

13. Yes, and hatred for little girls, too.

So strange of them.

[lark]

14. After birth, they have zero interest in protecting children, especially female children.

[cab67]

7. No way is the Indiana AG going to stop.

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He's going to continue to try to strip Dr. Bernard of her license until he's out of office, and probably for some time after that as well.

My partner fell afoul of a bully in her former department a number of years ago. He leveled a long list of allegations against her with the internal review board. The allegations all fell into a spectrum between "weak" and "ludicrous," but he kept harping at them to find her non-compliant. In the end, under pressure from this one person, they found her non-compliant on one of the allegations, and it was a flagrantly bad decision on their part - it de-legitimized the IRB for many on campus. A lot of people could tell there was some sort of collusion going on. But the turd that walks as a man does who filed the complaints kept trying to push others on campus to sanction my partner until she left the institution.

The Indiana AG is acting just like the bully. This form of discipline won't be enough for him.

[2naSalit]

11. That is the...

Intent with all of them. They now have official permission to bully and so they will until we stop them.

[Botany]

8. The young lady was raped by a 27 year old man in Columbus, OH area but OH's new abortion law kept ..

.... her from getting treated in OH. The Dr. did the right thing to keep the girl from having to suffer even
more pain in carrying the baby to term. Christo Fascists

The man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion was indicted by a grand jury in Ohio Thursday, in a case that became a flashpoint in the debate about the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Gerson Fuentes, 27, was charged with two felony counts of rape in the indictment filed in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in Columbus.

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The man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion was indicted by a grand jury in Ohio Thursday, in a case that became a flashpoint in the debate about the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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Fuentes was arrested on July 12, and he confessed to raping the child, according to separate documents filed in Franklin County municipal court. He was charged with the rape of a minor and if convicted, faces a life sentence, as well as deportation, the documents said.

[Hekate]

17. I know you mean well, but she was a little girl, not a young lady.Maybe 4th grade when she was raped

We have to keep it front and center that she was so far below the age of consent that it really amounts to rape by a pedophile. And that trying to carry a pregnancy to term could at best rip up her insides and at worst kill her.

[Initech]

9. Fuck you pro lifers!

[CanonRay]

10. I hope she leaves for a state

where she's free to practice medicine.

[pazzyanne]

12. This is a key part of what was reported.

"Bernard’s lawyers also said that she didn’t release any identifying information about the girl that would break privacy laws."

Discussing a case without identifying the people involved does not breach privacy laws in most, if not all cases.

[yardwork]

15. The thugs want to silence doctors so nobody knows what's happening.

They don't want the public to learn that there are ten year olds who get pregnant and need abortions.

They don't want the public to learn about how women suffer when they're denied life-saving abortions during miscarriages.

The goal is to threaten doctors so that these truths are kept secret.

[pfitz59]

16. Yep, hiding the truth

is how the forced-birthers get power.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. Over 500 Hoosier physicians expresses disappointment with the treatment of Dr. Caitlan Bernard

Link to tweet