A 10 year old girl Just over six weeks pregnant, she had to travel to Indiana to get an abortion after being denied the procedure in her home state of Ohio, the Indianapolis Star Tribune reported on Saturday.
The girl was referred for an abortion on Monday, three days after the Roe ruling, to Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Caitlin Bernard, she told the Indy Star. Bernard had been contacted by a colleague, a doctor specializing in pedophilia in Ohio, who had determined that the girl was six weeks and three days pregnant, according to the newspaper.
The girl was soon on her way to Bernard’s care. There were no further details about his whereabouts.
Future sexual assault victims like the 10-year-old will likely soon be unable to travel to Indiana for an abortion.
Until then, doctors are reporting a significant increase in out-of-state patients desperate to terminate a pregnancy now that abortions are banned in their states.
“It’s hard to imagine that in just a few weeks we won’t be able to provide this care,” Bernard said.
Bernard could not immediately be reached for comment by HuffPost.
Ohio prohibits an abortion when so-called fetal heart activity begins, around six weeks. Several groups have filed a lawsuit to prevent the state law from taking effect Wednesday. But an emergency stay of the abortion ban was overturned by the Ohio Supreme Court on Friday, meaning the ban can stand while the case is heard, the Cincinnati reported. Inquire.
Another 10-year-old girl who was raped and pregnant was also fighting for an abortion recently – in Brazil. A judge tried to persuade her to carry her fetus to term. Couldn’t she bear to be pregnant “a little longer?” Brazilian judge Joana Ribeiro Zimmer asked him, The Washington Post reported.
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