A Harder, Meaner Gilead.

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In the run-up to the US'ian Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, I wrote a post called 'A Kinder, Gentler Gilead'. In that post I pointed out how a Republican-linked media wurlitzer organ published a piece in which the authors argued that, instead of prosecuting women and throwing them in jail for getting an abortion, they would instead subject them to mandatory psychiatric custody.

Well that was then (i.e. a month ago) and this now:

"Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita went on Fox News Wednesday night to say he is looking into the Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Caitlin Bernard, who provided a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio with an abortion.

“We're gathering the evidence as we speak, and we're going to fight this to the end, including looking at her licensure,” Rokita said. “If she failed to report it in Indiana, it's a crime for — to not report, to intentionally not report.”..."

That report was from Lizzie Kane et al. published in the Indiana Star at noon on Thursday.

Last night the paper posted the following update:

Late Thursday afternoon, IndyStar received a copy of the 10-year-old's terminated pregnancy report from the Indiana Department of Health. It shows that Bernard reported the abortion before the state's reporting deadline, and that Bernard indicated the 10-year-old had suffered abuse.

So.

To recap...

A young girl suffered the worst kind of abuse, one of the consequences of which was that she became pregnant.

Due to the Ohio law that was triggered by the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade she could get no help in her home state. As a result, her parents took her to Indiana where the law there made it possible for Dr. Bernard to help the young girl get the healthcare she needed that will make it possible for her to start moving on with the rest of her childhood. 

And the Attorney General of Indiana went after the Doctor concerned over an imaginary reporting infraction in an effort to demonstrate his bogus bonafides in New Gilead?



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