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   The Indiana doctor who recently provided an abortion to a 10-   
   year-old rape victim whose story has garnered national attention   
   faced serious threats in the past and is named on an extreme   
   anti-abortion website linked to Amy Coney Barrett before she was   
   a supreme court justice.   
      
   Dr Caitlin Bernard testified last year, in a case involving   
   abortion restrictions in Indiana, that she was forced to stop   
   providing first-trimester abortions at a clinic in South Bend.   
   She stopped the procedures after she was alerted by Planned   
   Parenthood – who in turn had been alerted by the FBI – that a   
   kidnapping threat had been made against her daughter.   
      
   The Guardian reported in January that the names of six abortion   
   providers, as well as their educational backgrounds and places   
   of work, were listed on the website of an extreme anti-abortion   
   group called Right to Life Michiana, in a section of the website   
   titled “Local Abortion Threat”. Bernard was among the list of   
   doctors named on the extremist website.   
      
   Barrett, who voted to overturn Roe v Wade last month, signed a   
   two-page advertisement published by the group in 2006, while she   
   was working as a professor at Notre Dame. It stated that those   
   who signed “oppose abortion on demand and defend the right to   
   life from fertilization to natural death”. The second page of   
   the ad called Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that   
   legalized abortion, “barbaric”. The advertisement was published   
   in the South Bend Tribune by St Joseph County Right to Life,   
   which merged with Right to Life Michiana in 2020.   
      
   Protesters rally at the Ohio Statehouse and march downtown in   
   support of abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs.   
   Wade on Friday, June 24, 2022 in Columbus, Ohio. The Supreme   
   Court on Friday stripped away women’s constitutional protections   
   for abortion, a fundamental and deeply personal change for   
   Americans' lives after nearly a half-century under Roe v. Wade.   
   (Barbara J. Perenic /The Columbus Dispatch via AP)   
   Man charged with rape of 10-year-old who had abortion after   
   rightwing media called story ‘not true’   
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   Bernard said in sworn testimony that she had started to travel   
   to South Bend once a month – beginning in 2020 – in order to   
   perform first trimester abortions, but stopped making the 2.5-   
   hour trip once she learned of the threat against her daughter.   
      
   “I felt it would be best for me to limit my travel and exposure   
   during that time,” she said. “I was concerned that there may be   
   people who would be able to identify me during that travel, as   
   well as it’s a very small clinic without any privacy for the   
   people who are driving in and out, and so therefore, people   
   could directly see me.”   
      
   Bernard is still listed on the Right to Life Michiana website.   
   It is a common tactic employed by anti-abortion groups that   
   supporters of abortion rights have said invites threats of   
   violence and intimidation against abortion providers.   
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   Neither Bernard nor her attorney could be immediately reached   
   for comment.   
      
   She became the center of a media storm early this month when the   
   Indianapolis Star reported an anecdote about how, three days   
   after the supreme court issued its decision to overturn Roe v   
   Wade, the Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist took a call   
   from a colleague about a 10-year-old patient who was six weeks   
   and three days pregnant and needed an abortion.   
      
   The girl received Bernard’s care after traveling from Ohio,   
   where the state had outlawed any abortion after six weeks. The   
   story was initially treated with skepticism by some conservative   
   media outlets and Republican politicians.   
      
   Bernard’s lawyer, Kathleen DeLaney, issued a statement on Friday   
   saying that her client had provided proper treatment and had not   
   violated any patient privacy laws in discussing the unidentified   
   girl’s case.   
      
   The Republican Indiana attorney general, Todd Rokita, has said   
   he would investigate Bernard’s actions but did not suggest there   
   was any specific wrongdoing.   
      
      
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