Peter Slevin on Caitlin Bernard, an Indiana ob-gyn who rose to fame when she was quoted as saying that she would be treating a ten-year-old, and the overturning of Roe.
For fourteen hours, as Bernard’s white-coated colleagues sat behind her in solidarity, lawyers tried to prove that Bernard was unfit to practice medicine. Under close questioning, she insisted that she had not violated privacy rules and that the case was designed to intimidate her.
As Bernard saw it, the most powerful law-enforcement official in Indiana was trying to silence her and send a warning to other providers. “On one hand, it was, like, This is ridiculous. There’s no way he can win this,” she told me. “And then there was the fear of, well, if he does win, am I going to lose my license?” The hearing was held before six members of the board—five doctors and a lawyer—all appointed or reappointed by a strongly anti-abortion Republican governor.
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