The young woman’s story was highlighted by President Joe Biden last week as he signed an executive order aimed at protecting access to abortion. The US leader warned that the historic ruling by the conservative-dominated court put women’s “health and lives” at risk. The suspect’s arraignment in Ohio came days after the state’s Republican governor and other conservatives raised questions about whether the story was true. A detective testified Wednesday that police learned of the girl’s pregnancy through a child services referral made by her mother and that she had an abortion in Indiana, The Columbus Dispatch reported. An Indianapolis abortion doctor, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, told the Indianapolis Star that an abortion was planned for such a child because the girl could not get an abortion in Ohio under the recently enacted abortion ban. “fetal heartbeat”. Read more: US Supreme Court – from abortion to contraception what could happen next? Appearing on Fox News on Monday, Republican Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said he had not heard a “whisper” from law enforcement in Ohio about any reports or arrests being made in connection with such a case. Mr. Yost suggested later in the interview that the young rape victim would have met Ohio’s emergency abortion exception. It’s not clear, however, that the girl’s condition met the law’s definition of an emergency, which must be life-threatening or involve “a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of an important bodily function.” In a statement Wednesday, Mr. Yost said the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation was ready to help prosecute the case.
