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The story of a 10-year-old rape victim who left Ohio for Indiana to have an abortion made national news after President Joe Biden mentioned it in a speech before signing an executive order to protect abortion rights in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist Caitlin Bernard performed the procedure on the child who was six weeks and three days pregnant. She had been contacted by an Ohio doctor who specialized in child abuse victims but couldn’t perform the procedure due to Ohio’s law that bans abortions at the point of a heartbeat,…