Indiana investigates abortion doctor who treated 10-year-old rape victim

The Indiana state attorney general has launched an investigation into the doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim.

According to Kathleen DeLaney, a lawyer acting for the doctor, Caitlin Bernard, a notice from the Indiana attorney general, Todd Rokita, regarding his investigation arrived on Tuesday.

A 27-year-old man has since been charged in Columbus, Ohio, in connection with abuse of the girl.

Pregnancy termination forms that Bernard filed with the Indiana department of health, which Indy Star obtained and reviewed, showed that Bernard indicated the girl was six weeks pregnant at the time of her abortion and that Bernard did not know the age of the person who impregnated her.

And lawmakers in West Virginia debated an abortion ban, drawing an at times raucous crowd of hundreds to the state capitol, where dozens spoke against the bill on the house floor.

Such trigger laws are designed to automatically implement pre-prepared abortion ban laws after Roe was felled and the power over the right to abortion was returned from the federal government to the states.

The Associated Press contributed reporting