Many Republicans didn't believe an Ohio girl traveled to Indiana for an abortion after saying she'd been sexually assaulted. But the reports were real and, according to recent affidavits, other Ohio kids have had to do the same. (via MaddowBlog)
that local health providers are drawing attention to the fact that other minors in Ohio also had to cross state lines for the same reason.
In affidavits filed this month included as part of a lawsuit challenging the Ohio law — which went into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that guaranteed a constitutional right to an abortion — two separate providers said they each had a case in which a minor was sexually assaulted and had to travel out of state to terminate their pregnancies.
One of the affidavits was filed by Aeran Trick, the operations manager of the Women’s Med Center of Dayton, who noted a teenaged patient who’d been sexually assaulted, allegedly by a family member.added that Ohio law enforcement was aware of the case, and officials had to go to Indianapolis to retrieve tissue to be tested as part of a sexual assault investigation.
“I am concerned that Ohio’s ban and the need to travel increasingly far distances to obtain abortion care not only causes unimaginable harm to these young victims, but could also hamper law enforcement’s ability to investigate and prosecute these cases in the future,” Trick said in the affidavit. As a legal matter, the affidavits will be considered as part of the ongoing litigation, but as a political matter, revelations such as these create an underlying question that Republicans should answer before Election Day: In the United States, should the government force raped children to take their pregnancies to term against their wishes?
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