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Antifar
07/01/22 6:00:52 PM
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https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2022/07/01/ohio-girl-10-among-patients-going-indiana-abortion/7788415001/

On Monday three days after the Supreme Court issued its groundbreaking decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist, took a call from a colleague, a child abuse doctor in Ohio.

Hours after the Supreme Court action, the Buckeye state had outlawed any abortion after six weeks. Now this doctor had a 10-year-old patient in the office who was six weeks and three days pregnant.

Could Bernard help?

Indiana lawmakers are poised to further restrict or ban abortion in mere weeks. The Indiana General Assembly will convene in a special session July 25 when it will discuss restrictions to abortion policy along with inflation relief.

But for now, the procedure still is legal in Indiana. And so the girl soon was on her way to Indiana to Bernard's care.

While Indiana law did not change last week when the Supreme Court issued its groundbreaking Dobbs decision, abortion providers here have felt an effect, experiencing a dramatic increase in the number of patients coming to their clinics from neighboring states with more restrictive policies.

Since Friday, the abortion clinics where Dr. Katie McHugh, an independent obstetrician-gynecologists works have seen an insane amount of requests from pregnant people in Kentucky and Ohio, where it is far more difficult to get an abortion.

A ban on abortions after six weeks took effect on last week in Ohio. Last Friday the two abortion providers in Kentucky shut their doors after that states trigger law banning abortions went into effect.

Indiana soon could have similar restrictions.

That pains doctors like Bernard.

Its hard to imagine that in just a few short weeks we will have no ability to provide that care, Bernard said.

For now, Indiana abortion providers have been fielding more calls from neighboring states. Typically about five to eight patients a day might hail from out of state, said McHugh, who works at multiple clinics in central and southern Indiana. Now, the clinics are seeing about 20 such patients a day.

Kentucky patients have been coming to Indiana in higher numbers since earlier this spring when more restrictive laws took effect there, McHugh said.

A similar dynamic is at play at Womens Med, a medical center that performs abortions in Indianapolis that has a sister center in Dayton, Ohio. In the past week, they have doubled the number of patients they treat for a complete procedure, accepting many referrals from their Ohio counterpart.

More than 100 patients in Dayton had to be scheduled at the Indianapolis facility, a representative for Womens Med, wrote in an email to IndyStar.

Women and pregnant people are crying, distraught, desperate, thankful and appreciative, the representative wrote.

The two centers are working together to route patients to Indianapolis for a termination after a pre-op appointment in Dayton. In recent months, they have also had people from southern states, like Texas, come north for a procedure.

Many patients, particularly from Ohio and Kentucky, are seeking care through Womens Med while also making multiple appointments in other states so if one state closes down, they will still have some options, the representative wrote.

The center is advising pregnant people with a positive pregnancy test to book an appointment even though prior to the Supreme Court ruling they asked people to wait until their six-week mark to do so.

For years people have traversed state lines for abortions, particularly if a clinic across the border is closer to their home than the nearest in-state facility.

In 2021, 465, or about 5.5% of the more than 8,400 abortions performed, were done on out-of-state residents, according to the Indiana Department of Health's most recent terminated pregnancy report. More than half, 264, lived in Kentucky and 40 in Ohio.
Midwestern residents can also travel to Illinois, where abortion is likely to remain legal even in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling but for many Indiana is closer and until the lawmakers pass any measure to the contrary, abortion will be legal here.
Still, it remains murky what the future holds.

Thursday a lower court ruled that abortions could resume, at least for now, in Kentucky. On Wednesday abortion clinics in Ohio filed suit, saying that states new ban was unconstitutional.

In Indiana lawmakers have declined to provide specifics of what measures any abortion legislation considered here might contain.

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Irony
07/01/22 6:01:31 PM
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Jfc

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_HayleyWilliams
07/01/22 6:02:35 PM
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Gotta say, not sure how preteen and teen moms makes America a better place.

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LordMarshal
07/01/22 6:02:52 PM
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Omg this is awful but America just fucking sucks now so.....

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HylianFox
07/01/22 6:02:53 PM
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I don't see how Indiana is much better

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WaterLink
07/01/22 6:02:54 PM
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I'm not reading all that but lol @ Ohio if Indiana is less restrictive on abortion than them

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NinjaWarrior455
07/01/22 6:03:32 PM
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Seems very bad

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NeonOctopus
07/01/22 6:03:50 PM
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Why the fuck is a 10yo pregnant??

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PatrickMahomes
07/01/22 6:04:27 PM
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the first of what will surely be thousands of cases like this

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YellowSUV
07/01/22 6:04:32 PM
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WaterLink posted...
I'm not reading all that but lol @ Ohio if Indiana is less restrictive on abortion than them

Not for long. Indiana is having a special legislative session next week that will likely ban abortion.

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RenescoStCewl
07/01/22 6:04:42 PM
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This is so fucked up.

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_HayleyWilliams
07/01/22 6:05:28 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
Why the fuck is a 10yo pregnant??
Because rape

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Jagr_68
07/01/22 6:05:35 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
Why the fuck is a 10yo pregnant??

You cannot be serious with this question...

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DarthAragorn
07/01/22 6:05:37 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
Why the fuck is a 10yo pregnant??
Rape, I would imagine.

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KStateKing17
07/01/22 6:06:00 PM
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WaterLink posted...
I'm not reading all that but lol @ Ohio if Indiana is less restrictive on abortion than them
For now. If abortion law is on their ballots like the article says, then that could change real soon.

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NeonOctopus
07/01/22 6:06:58 PM
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_HayleyWilliams posted...
Because rape
Did they catch the guy?

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JeDDyD
07/01/22 6:07:07 PM
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America is fucked, what a shit hole.
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MattcheteGuy
07/01/22 6:12:07 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
Did they catch the guy?

The victim was referred by a child abuse doctor, so in all likelihood, there is at least an investigation going on about it.

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thronedfire2
07/01/22 6:13:19 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
Did they catch the guy?

they might worry about that once he owes child support

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creativerealms
07/01/22 6:16:36 PM
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HylianFox posted...
I don't see how Indiana is much better
For now it is. My state put off setting a new law for a month. At least.

If Pence was Still my state's governor we would probably have some of the worst abortion restrictions right now.

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_HayleyWilliams
07/01/22 6:21:46 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

"Pro-life" until the 10 year old gives birth

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mybbqrules
07/01/22 6:25:00 PM
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_HayleyWilliams posted...
Gotta say, not sure how preteen and teen moms makes America a better place.
They become scapegoats for the right to finger wag at and blame all of society's ills on alongside minorities and LGBTQ.

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mybbqrules
07/01/22 6:25:44 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Because they want to be able to legally impregnate ten year olds.

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Unsuprised_Pika
07/01/22 6:27:27 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
Why the fuck is a 10yo pregnant??

Sadly rape most likely.

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Sayoria
07/01/22 6:30:09 PM
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Y'all Qaeda be like: "LET THE GIRL HAVE HER BABY! She should have closed her legs!!!!!"

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07/01/22 6:31:37 PM
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AldousIsDead
07/01/22 6:34:53 PM
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Unsuprised_Pika posted...
Sadly rape most likely.
There is no most likely. 10 year olds cannot consent.

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WaterLink
07/01/22 6:42:12 PM
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AldousIsDead posted...
There is no most likely. 10 year olds cannot consent.

what if the guy was 10 as well?

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AldousIsDead
07/01/22 6:43:15 PM
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WaterLink posted...
what if the guy was 10 as well?
Dude. Try again.

AldousIsDead posted...
10 year olds cannot consent.


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WaterLink
07/01/22 6:44:09 PM
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So they'd both be rapists?

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AldousIsDead
07/01/22 6:44:31 PM
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Correct.

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NoxObscuras
07/01/22 6:46:32 PM
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I really hope that girl is able to get the help she needs because...

Young adolescents (ages 10-14) face a higher risk of complications and death as a result of pregnancy than other women.

"Pro-life" should include the life of the pregnant women, yet here we are...

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What_
07/01/22 6:49:12 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
Did they catch the guy?
Thats not the issue in this topic

stop derailing
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NeonOctopus
07/01/22 6:55:56 PM
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What_ posted...
Thats not the issue in this topic

stop derailing
bruh what

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Unsuprised_Pika
07/01/22 11:13:27 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
bruh what

I mean the real issue is that we prolong the suffering of victims by limiting and even prosecuting abortion.

That is done systematically rather then being a single depraved piece of shit and there is likely more we can do as a society about abortion then child abuse(also abortion probably lowers child abuse because less kids will be born to unprepared, desperate or uncaring parents) I can see why he would view focusing on the rapist as derailing especially given we have jack shit info to go on on that front.

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The Wheelman1
07/02/22 1:33:43 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
bruh what
Well he's right. Getting revenge on the man that raped her isn't going to solve the issue

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St0rmFury
07/02/22 1:39:01 PM
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NoxObscuras posted...
"Pro-life" should include the life of the pregnant women, yet here we are...
They are only pro-birth.

Once the baby is born they no longer give a shit.

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LeperMessiahXX
07/02/22 1:43:16 PM
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I never thought there would be a world where a 10 year old girl is pretty much forced to deliver a child in the United States of America. Thank god it's not the entire country, but the fact that it's a large chunk of the country is just sickening.

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Southernfatman
07/02/22 1:45:10 PM
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The American right want everyone non-rich to be as miserable as possible. They hate it when people aren't suffering. I'll get modded for saying so, but no mod or anyone else can prove me wrong.

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Umbreon
07/02/22 1:49:07 PM
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I wish every single person who would force a 10 year old to give birth an unpleasant existence.


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Ruvan22
07/02/22 2:30:35 PM
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Are there any posters on CE that defend this?
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Alucard188
07/02/22 2:32:47 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
Why the fuck is a 10yo pregnant??

Child abuse. It's all you need to know.

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Umbreon
07/02/22 2:41:34 PM
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Ruvan22 posted...
Are there any posters on CE that defend this?

I remember one user insisting cases like these didn't matter because it "represented less than 1% of cases".

They're banned now, thankfully.

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Prestoff
07/02/22 2:51:41 PM
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St0rmFury posted...
They are only pro-birth.

Once the baby is born they no longer give a shit.

Yep, if you're pro-life and are against having a social program designed to help the parent(s) take care of the baby, you're only pro-life because you want to punish the baby.

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AldousIsDead
07/04/22 8:55:48 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

You necroed this 2 day dead thread for that shit take?


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