A 10-year-old girl was denied an abortion in Ohio and subsequently traveled to Indiana for the procedure.
The girl was reportedly referred to an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist after seeking medical attention at a child abuse center in Ohio. By Monday, she was six weeks and three days pregnant, in a state that bans all abortions after six weeks.
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It is an ongoing trend in Indiana, as its abortion restrictions are significantly less strict than Ohio’s. Another OB-GYN, Dr. Katie McHugh, reported seeing about 20 out-of-state patients a day, an increase of roughly four times since before the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Another clinic reported that more than 100 patients from Dayton, Ohio had made abortion appointments at its Indianapolis location.
Pregnant women in this girl’s same demographic, that is anywhere between ages 10-24, have an elevated risk of being murdered either while they’re pregnant or within the first postpartum year according to a 2021 study from the Obstetrics and Gynecology Journal.
Girls who are expecting from the ages of 10-19 have six times the risk of dying by homicide than those who aren’t pregnant or are postpartum. That risk doubles again for black girls. Homicide remains the number one cause of maternal death in the United States for all women ages 10-44.
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In the meantime, Ohio abortion clinics are in the midst of a lawsuit to overturn the state’s abortion law. Ohio’s Supreme Court denied the plantiff’s motion to enact an emergency stay on the law, upholding the ban until the trial is over.
The Indiana General Assembly has called a special session for Jul 25 to further discuss its laws surrounding abortion.
