Todd Rokita, Cory Voight #fundie #wingnut aljazeera.com

[Title: US doctor who treated 10-year-old rape victim faces hearing]
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[...] Licensing Board [...] opened a disciplinary hearing [...] after she spoke out about offering abortion care to a 10-year-old rape victim[...].

[...]told her story to The Indianapolis Star [...] to illustrate the immediate effects of [...] overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.

[...]the board heard a complaint from Indiana’s Attorney General Todd Rokita, a Republican and opponent of abortion rights, accusing Bernard of violating both state and federal law.
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Bernard “has repeatedly and regularly spoken to the press to perpetuate the coverage of her patient’s private life”[...]

[...]the patient was never named [...] accuses Bernard of triggering “an intense media search” for information about the girl.

Bernard and her lawyers, however, have denied any violation of [...] the law that protects patient privacy.
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[...]Bernard’s employer, Indiana University Health, issued a statement confirming the doctor had complied with patient privacy laws.
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Ohio was able to impose an existing six-week abortion ban that had been mired in legal controversy since 2019.

That forced the 10-year-old and her mother to seek abortion care across state lines, in Indiana. At the time Bernard first heard about the 10-year-old, she was six weeks and three days pregnant.

The child ultimately received a medication abortion, and a 27-year-old suspect in the rape case was arrested in July.
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Bernard’s public statements about the case sparked a political firestorm, with many anti-abortion advocates — and prominent politicians like Ohio Representative Jim Jordan — casting doubt on the story’s veracity.
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[...]Cory Voight argued that it was Bernard who was advancing her own political agenda. [...] on Fox News to slam Bernard as an “abortion activist acting as a doctor”.
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[...]judge[...]rule that Rokita had violated confidentiality laws himself[...]
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