
Indiana’s Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita appears on the Fox News Channel on July 13, 2022 (YouTube/Fox News Channel).
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has dropped a lawsuit against the hospital he once said violated patient privacy laws when a doctor told a newspaper that a 10-year-old rape victim traveled from Ohio to Indiana for an abortion.
The matter gained national attention in 2022 when, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled there is no constitutionally-protected right to abortion, Dr. Caitlin Bernard told press that she had performed a legal abortion in Indiana on a 10-year-old Ohio girl.
Rokita ultimately filed an administrative complaint against Bernard alleging that the doctor violated state and federal privacy laws by sharing the girl’s story — even though Bernard did not use any specific identifying information — to press. Rokita also accused Bernard of “fail[ing] to uphold legal and Hippocratic responsibilities by exploiting a 10-year-old little girl’s traumatic medical story to the press for her own interests.”