Kayla Dwyer reports:
Attorney General Todd Rokita has dropped his lawsuit against IU Health, originally waged in the wake of the media firestorm over an anecdote one of the system’s doctors shared with IndyStar about a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled to Indiana for an abortion.
Rokita filed the lawsuit in September of last year, alleging IU Health violated HIPPA (sic) and the Indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act by failing to protect the child’s health information. Earlier in the year, Indiana’s medical licensing board decided obstetrician-gynecologist Caitlin Bernard violated privacy laws in the case, though experts in the medical field disagreed. IU Health’s own internal investigation found Bernard did not violate privacy laws.
Read more at IndyStar.