In the rare moments of quiet, when Caitlin Bernard can pause to think about all that is happening throughout a post-Roe America, everything is distilled to a single image in her mind, the one that matters most to her as a physician. She sees the patient, the person who just found out they are pregnant, or that something has gone terribly wrong in a pregnancy; the person who needs Bernard’s care but might not be able to reach her in time, or at all.
In June, that patient was a 10-year-old child, a rape victim who was forced to travel from Ohio to Indiana to receive an abortion.
October 27, 2022