Tue Nov 8, 2022 – 7:37 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Last week, a medical doctor filed a lawsuit against Indiana’s attorney general in an attempt to block him from accessing records of a 10-year-old’s controversial abortion.
Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an obstetrician-gynecologist in the state’s capital, is suing Attorney General Todd Rokita to block a subpoena of patient records, which is part of an investigation into the report of an abortion committed on a young rape victim.
The investigation was sparked by complaints that Bernard did not follow the law regarding the situation, which involved a patient traveling out of state to kill her unborn baby when her home state banned abortion.
“This is an action for declaratory and injunctive relief to prevent Defendants from exceeding their authority under Indiana law by flouting the Indiana General Assembly’s carefully crafted structure for regulating physicians and other licensed professionals,” the complaint states. “Unless this court intervenes, Defendants will continue to unlawfully harass physicians and patients who are engaged in completely legal conduct and even though neither the physicians nor patients have any complaints about their relationship.”
The lawsuit was filed by Bernard and colleague Dr. Amy Caldwell, who is
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