The United States is shaken by a case in which a raped ten-year-old girl in Ohio was forced to go to the neighboring state of Indiana to have an abortion, after stricter abortion laws were introduced.
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The fate of the ten-year-old girl has been questioned among Republicans, but the police confirm the incident and a 27-year-old man has been arrested for rape. The case received international and national attention when President Joe Biden mentioned the girl when he signed a presidential order on Friday in an attempt to protect the possibility of abortion in the country.
“Last week it was reported that a ten-year-old girl who had been raped in Ohio – ten years – and that she was forced to travel across the state border, to Indiana, to try to end the pregnancy,” Biden said, adding that the girl was six weeks pregnant.
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