Opinion: Listen: Physicians have a moral and professional obligation to get into ‘good trouble’
This week on the First Opinion Podcast, Torie Bosch spoke with Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson, who are both friends and colleagues of Caitlin Bernard, about her story, its lessons…
Just days after the end of Roe v. Wade, Caitlin Bernard, an OB-GYN in Indiana, told the Indianapolis Star a heartbreaking story: She had recently been asked to perform an abortion on a 10-year-old Ohio girl who had been raped. The end of Roe had ushered in a six-week abortion ban in Ohio, and the girl was just past that mark in her pregnancy, meaning she could not access care in her own state.
Bernard’s remarks highlighted the ways abortion bans threaten patients’ health but also prompted major uproar from anti-abortion activists and politicians. Some cast doubt on Bernard’s story — until the alleged rapist was arrested. Even then, the criticism of Bernard continued.
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