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Indiana Abortion Doctor Fined for Violating Privacy of 10-Year-Old Patient

State medical board said doctor shouldn’t have spoken publicly about case

By Laura Kusisto
Dr. Caitlin Bernard spoke to a reporter from the Indianapolis Star last summer after Ohio enacted a ban on abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy. Photo: Jenna Watson/Associated Press

An Indiana medical board late Thursday disciplined a doctor who spoke to a journalist about an abortion she performed on a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim, a case that grabbed national attention in the early days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. 

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