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The Indiana state Medical Licensing Board reprimanded Dr. Caitlin Bernard during a disciplinary hearing on Thursday for talking to media about an abortion she performed on a 10-year-old.
The state Medical Licensing Board voted that she didn’t abide by privacy laws.
The state Medical Licensing Board voted that Dr. Caitlin Bernard didn’t abide by privacy laws when she told a newspaper reporter about the girl’s treatment in a case that became a flashpoint in the national abortion debate days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer.
An Indianapolis doctor who provided an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim violated privacy laws when she spoke to a newspaper about the case, the Indiana Medical Licensing Board concluded.
Dr. Caitlin Bernard was found to have violated state and federal patient privacy laws by the Indiana Medical Licensing Board.