Indiana attorney general claims ‘victory’ despite series of losses in campaign against hospital over doctor who provided abortion to child rape victim

Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita appears on Fox News on July 13, 2022, announcing an investigation into Dr. Caitlin Bernard.

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.”

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