A 10-year-old girl was denied an abortion in Ohio after the Supreme Court ruled last week that it was overturning Roe v. Wade, demonstrating the tangible impacts that the high court’s decision is having on patients seeking access to the medical procedure.
A child abuse doctor in Ohio contacted Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Indiana, after receiving a 10-year-old patient who was six weeks and three days pregnant, the Indianapolis Star reported.
That patient is now heading west to Indiana given that an abortion ban in Ohio, which prohibits the medical procedure when fetal cardiac activity begins, around six weeks, had become effective quickly after the high court issued its decision…
Ohio is among a number of states that have rolled back abortion access since the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion…
All the scumbags of the earth now have an American role model to lead them. There is no political party better qualified than our Republican Party and the fascist mob in charge of that GOP.
Eideard 
Lina Medina, the youngest confirmed mother in medical history https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/lina-medina-youngest-mother-1939/
Lina was a victim of rape and aged five, seven months, and 21 days when she gave birth to a boy by a cesarean section on May 14, 1939.
“Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) says he will be looking into the licensure of the physician who provided abortion services to a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio who made national headlines after she traveled out of state to receive the procedure.
Caitlin Bernard, an Indiana obstetrician-gynecologist, publicly shared earlier this month in an interview published by the The Indianapolis Star that she would be assisting the young girl, who was prohibited from getting an abortion under Ohio’s six-week ban.
Rokita appeared on Fox News Wednesday and referred to Bernard as an “abortion activist acting as a doctor.” He accused of her having a history of failing to report abortions and that an investigation into the physician and her license is underway.
“We’re gathering the evidence as we speak, and we’re going to fight this to the end, including looking at her licensure if she failed to report. And in Indiana it’s a crime … to intentionally not report,” Rokita said.” https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3559347-indiana-ag-threatens-license-of-doctor-who-provided-abortion-to-10-year-old-rape-victim/
And…as usual…it’s not a crime to be an ignorant, reactionary, bigoted, rightwing fucking politician earning his keep as a reliable steward for incompetent governance.
7AM MDT, tomorrow morning, 15th
“Death panel” is a political term that originated during the 2009 debate about federal health care legislation to cover the uninsured in the United States. Sarah Palin, former Republican Governor of Alaska and Vice Presidential Candidate in 2008, coined the term when she charged that proposed legislation would create a “death panel” of bureaucrats who would carry out triage, i.e. decide whether Americans—such as her elderly parents, or children with Down syndrome—were “worthy of medical care”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_panel
Palin’s claim has been referred to as the “death panel myth”, as nothing in any proposed legislation would have led to individuals being judged to see if they were worthy of health care.