Dr. Caitlin Bernard, who provided an abortion to a 10-year-old, publicly advocates for abortion access. Her outspokenness has extracted a price.
Dr. Caitlin Bernard, a reproductive healthcare provider, speaks during an abortion rights rally on June 25, 2022, at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis.
“Physicians who provide abortion have been harassed, they have been murdered,” Bernard said on Tuesday in an interview with The New York Times. “And for too long, I think, because of that, they’ve had to be silent to protect their families, and it’s created an idea that we’re doing something wrong or something illegal. And we’re not. And I feel compelled to say that.”
In a statement to The Times on Tuesday, the attorney general said he would “see this duty through to the very end,” and accused Bernard of using “a 10-year-old rape victim’s personal trauma” to “push her ideological stance.” The work has long included stressful elements that go well beyond delivering sensitive medical care: In 2020, she said, the FBI informed Planned Parenthood it was investigating a kidnapping threat against her daughter.
Abortion opponents have been leaving hateful messages on her cellphone, she said. She continues to see patients, but she has hired a security detail, and her colleagues have started a GoFundMe account to help with her mounting legal bills. An in-person appearance in a tense environment at the Legislature might further inflame the situation.
Bernard on Tuesday refused to discuss any aspect of the case, citing the girl’s privacy. In addition to worrying about prosecution, she could face consequences at work. Until Tuesday, her employer, Indiana University School of Medicine, a state-funded institution, and Indiana University Health, a nonprofit health care system, had been publicly silent about her, except to say she had not violated patient privacy laws.
Nearly a third of the patients she saw were suffering from complications from unsafe at-home abortions. “We’d often see women who had been raped, assaulted, and now pregnant,” said Dr. Astrid Christoffersen-Deb, her supervisor.
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