Article 61FFV Daughter of doctor who gave 10-year-old an abortion faced kidnapping threat

Daughter of doctor who gave 10-year-old an abortion faced kidnapping threat

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner
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Caitlin Bernard of Indiana is named on an extreme anti-abortion website linked to Amy Coney Barrett

The Indiana doctor who recently provided an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim whose story has garnered national attention faced serious threats in the past and is named on an extreme anti-abortion website linked to Amy Coney Barrett before she was a supreme court justice.

Dr Caitlin Bernard testified last year, in a case involving abortion restrictions in Indiana, that she was forced to stop providing first-trimester abortions at a clinic in South Bend. She stopped the procedures after she was alerted by Planned Parenthood - who in turn had been alerted by the FBI - that a kidnapping threat had been made against her daughter.

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