2023-05-30 16:34:16
Following a rape, a ten-year-old child from Ohio had to travel to a neighboring state, Indiana, to have an abortion. Dr. Caitlin Bernard, who performed the abortion, had chosen to alert the media to the realities behind revoking the right to abortion. She has just been sentenced to a fine of 3000 dollars for having violated medical secrecy.
Dince the abrogation by the Supreme Court in June 2022 of the judgment Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the right to abortion in the United States, resorting to abortion now requires compliance with certain conditions. Conditions that can turn into a real obstacle course depending on the state. Last year, Dr. Caitlin Bernard had chose to alert the press after performing an abortion on a 10-year-old child victim of rape. Originally from Ohio, where abortion is no longer legal after six weeks of pregnancy, the child and his family had to travel to the neighboring state, theIndianawhere abortions were legal until 21 weeks of pregnancyexplain The Parisian. After agitating the country by reporting the facts, Dr. Bernard has just been condemned by the Council of Physicians this Thursday, May 25, for having betrayed medical secrecy.
A betrayal of medical secrecy which casts doubt on the veracity of the rape
A year earlier, Dr. Bernard had chosen to entrust this story to a journalist, explaining that the necessary care had not been given to him following the repeal of the judgment. A speech that did not please Todd Rokita, Indiana Attorney General, as reported miss. He had publicly questioned the veracity of the doctor’s story, doubting “the very possibility that a 10-year-old could be a victim of rape”, claiming that Dr. Bernard never reported to the state about the child’s rape – which the law requires in terms of pedophilia – and his abortion. However, the doctor pointed out these two facts.
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Indiana is also one of the only states to require that each abortion be reported to him – a particular condition that calls into question medical secrecy and can put patients in danger. Subsequently, Todd Rokita, known for his anti-abortion positions, instructed his office to investigate Caitlin Bernard before filing a complaint against her with the Indiana College of Physicians. Appointed by the governor, the members of the Order of Physicians accuse him in particular of having breached the secret medicalnot by reporting the abortion to the state but by speaking out in the media.
Sentenced to a fine of $3,000
“This file is about medical secrecy and the broken trust between a doctor and her patient”, defended himself in a press release Todd Rokita. Statements called into question by Dr. Bernard in his defense, who specifies that he did not disclose any sensitive data concerning his patient and only wanted to alert to the reality of these laws. “I think it’s essential that people understand the real impact of laws passed in this country, whether it’s abortion or whatever. It’s important to understand what patients are going through,” she said during her hearing.
The Indiana Board of Physicians estimated, after more than ten hours of hearing, that Caitlin Bernard had complied with the legal procedures relating to child abuse and therefore allows him to continue to practice medicine. However, he decided to condemn her to pay a fine of 3,000 dollars. In Indiana, a law was passed last August almost totally prohibiting voluntary terminations of pregnancy, but it is still blocked by justice for the moment.
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