A medical license should never be dictated by political ideology.

...Early childbirth (click here) is especially dangerous for adolescents and their infants. Compared to women between the ages of 20-35, pregnant women under 20 are at a greater risk for death and disease including bleeding during pregnancy, toxemia, hemorrhage, prolonged and difficult labor, severe anemia, and disability....

There is every reason to be prudent in saving the life of a ten year old child. The child was ten years old. The crime is not the abortion, it is the pedophilia.

If the Indiana medical licensing board rules against the good conscience of Dr. Bernard the board will have to come under severe review of it's by-laws, practices and decisions over it's past existence. 

Competent medical practice should be the ONLY concern of any medical board. If Indiana has problems focusing on competent practice it should be dissolved and the members reviewed for the methods they use in their medical/surgical practices.

The USA Surgeon General can carry the burden of determining medical practices for Indiana until the medical licensing board can be reorganized under competent by-laws, practices and decisions. The licensing board will have to be reviewed annually for a time until it proves it is competent in it's by-laws, practices and decisions.

...Adolescent pregnancy (click here) carries high risks for both girls and their babies. Globally, about 50,000 teenage girls die each year in pregnancy and childbirth, while one million babies born to adolescent girls die before their first birthday....

May 25, 2023
By Kim Bellware

Indiana’s medical licensing board (click here) will determine as soon as Thursday whether to take any disciplinary action against a doctor who made headlines last year for performing an abortion for a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim, after the state’s antiabortion attorney general alleged the doctor violated ethical standards and state reporting laws.

Indiana’s Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita for nearly a year has pursued punishment for Caitlin Bernard, an OB/GYN and an assistant professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine who performed the abortion in June 2022, less than a week after Roe v. Wade was struck down, enacting trigger laws.

The stakes of Thursday’s hearing are significant for Bernard, whose lawyers have refuted Rokita’s allegations as baseless and politically motivated. The seven-member board of governor appointees can, by a majority vote, either take no action against Bernard or impose a range of disciplinary measures up to and including the immediate termination of Bernard’s medical license....