Vice President Kamala Harris known as Dr. Caitlin Bernard, who was pushed into the highlight after a 10-year-old rape sufferer from Ohio obtained a medicinal-induced abortion in Indiana, earlier this month.
Bernard is the physician who supplied the abortion to the 10-year-old on June 30, in keeping with Indiana data, although she can not affirm that because of privateness legal guidelines.
Bernard stated she was at work when Harris known as.
"She actually simply thanked me. She thanked me for talking out, for bringing this situation up," Bernard advised "CBS Night Information" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell on Tuesday. "She talked about how essential it's to listen to the voices of physicians, and once more, what has been made right into a political state of affairs however is definitely about well being care and the way essential it's for physicians to be advocates for his or her sufferers."
Harris known as the Indiana OB-GYN on July 19 to commend her for her "braveness, professionalism, and dedication to her sufferers," a White Home official solely advised CBS Information. The official stated Harris thanked Bernard for her management and stated it is giving others a "sense of power."
President Biden highlighted the lady's case whereas signing an government order meant to guard entry to abortion as a number of Republican-led states, together with Ohio, moved to limit abortion entry after the Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade.
Bernard gave an interview earlier this month to the Indianapolis Star and talked about the 10-year-old rape sufferer. After Mr. Biden's remarks, outstanding Republicans accused her of fabricating the story, together with Indiana Lawyer Common Todd Rokita, who accused her being an "abortion activist appearing as a physician." She stated she has felt threatened and "it reveals how abortion, as an alternative of being a part of well being care — which it's — a wanted life-saving process — which it's — has been used to create a wedge between folks personally and politically."
Rokita stated he would examine whether or not Bernard violated youngster abuse notification, abortion reporting legal guidelines or federal medical privateness legal guidelines for chatting with the newspaper concerning the case. Indiana regulation requires docs to report abortions carried out on women youthful than 16 inside three days of the process. Bernard submitted her report concerning the lady's abortion on July 2, in keeping with data obtained by CBS Information.
A 27-year-old Ohio man has since been charged with raping the lady.