SEE MORE: Case of 10-year-old rape victim challenges anti-abortion rights movementĪmid the wave of attention to the girl's case last summer, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, who is stridently anti-abortion, told Fox News he would investigate Bernard's actions and called her an "abortion activist acting as a doctor."ĭeputy Attorney General Cory Voight argued Thursday that the board needed to address what he called an "egregious violation" of patient privacy and Bernard's failure to notify Indiana's Department of Child Services and police about the rape. "She did not expect that politicians would say that she made the story up." Bernard could not have anticipated the atypical and intense scrutiny that this story received," Morical said. It happened."īernard's lawyer Alice Morical told the board Thursday that the doctor reported child abuse of patients many times a year and that a hospital social worker had confirmed with Ohio child protection staffers that it was safe for the girl to leave with her mother. "I don't think she expected this attention to be brought to this patient. "I don't think she expected this to go viral," Strobel said of Bernard. John Strobel said he believed Bernard went too far in telling a reporter about the girl's pending abortion and that physicians need to be careful about observing patient privacy. RELATED: Indiana abortion ban blocked by judge week after it took effect
During an event at the White House, President Joe Biden nearly shouted his outrage over the case. Some news outlets and Republican politicians falsely suggested Bernard fabricated the story, until a 27-year-old man was charged with the rape in Columbus, Ohio. Wade decision put into effect an Ohio law that prohibited abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The Indianapolis Star cited the girl's case in a July 1 article that sparked a national political uproar in the weeks after last summer's Roe v. Bernard's lawyers also said that she didn't release any identifying information about the girl that would break privacy laws. The board issued no restrictions on her practice of medicineīernard 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. 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, however, rejected accusations from Indiana's Republican attorney general that Bernard violated state law by not reporting the child abuse to Indiana authorities.
RELATED: Attorney general requests doctor disciplined after child given abortion The above video is from a previous report. Wade last summer, the Associated Press reported. 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. The state Medical Licensing Board voted that Dr. INDIANAPOLIS - 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. An Indiana doctor being investigated by the state attorney general claims their office used illegitimate consumer complaints to pursue probe.
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