Ob-gyn Dr Caitlin Bernard was forced to quit her job after she received threats against a family, following her decision to give a 10-year-old girl, who was a victim of rape, an abortion.
Dr. Caitlin Bernard, 37, was also named on an anti-abortion website linked to Amy Coney Barrett before she became a supreme court justice, The Guardian said.
Bernard chose to stop working at a South Bend clinic after she learned of a threat to kidnap her daughter, she said last year while testifying in a case about abortion restrictions in Indiana, The Guardian reported Friday.
Bernard was also among a list of six abortion providers named on the website of an anti-abortion group called Right to Life Michiana, the New York Post reports.
Bernard had been making the 2.5 hour trek to South Bend once a month to do first trimester abortions when she learned of the threat against her child, she testified.
Bernard became the centre of a controversy this month when the Indianapolis Star reported her account of how she got a call from a “child abuse doctor” in Ohio three days after the Supreme Court issued its decision to overturn Roe v Wade.
The Ohio doctor told her about a 10-year-old girl who was six weeks and three days pregnant and needed an abortion. The girl was given a medical abortion June 30.
The Republican Indiana Attorney-General, Todd Rokita, has said he would investigate Bernard’s actions but did not suggest there was any specific wrongdoing.
Gerson Fuentes, 27, was charged in Columbus, Ohio, with raping the girl.
This story was originally published by the New York Post and has been reproduced here with permission.
Originally published as Pro-life activists allegedly threatened to kidnap ob-gyn’s daughter, for treating 10-year-old rape survivor
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