Indiana AG says investigating doctor who gave abortion to 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio after...

Indiana's Attorney General said Wednesday that the state would investigate a doctor reported to have given an abortion to a 10-year-old girl from Ohio after her rape.

Speaking to Fox News host Jesse Watters, Todd Rokita said "we are gathering evidence as we speak" about OB-GYN Dr Caitlin Bernard.

Bernard first told the Indianapolis Star that she had carried out the procedure on the girl when she was six weeks and three days pregnant after being raped.

The girl traveled from Ohio, Bernard said, where abortion was outlawed after six weeks in the wake of Roe v Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court.

Rokita said his office would look at her medical license and whether any procedure was properly reported. Abortion itself remains legal in Indiana until around 20 weeks under state law.

On Fox, Rokita attacked Bernard as an "abortion activist acting as a doctor" who he suspected of having failed to report the child's abuse to authorities.

"We're gathering the evidence as we speak and we're going to fight this to the end, including looking at her licensure, if she failed to report," he said. "In Indiana, it's a crime to intentionally not report."

Watters weighed in against Bernard too, saying that "from what we can find out so far, this Indiana abortion doctor has covered this up." He provided no evidence for that assertion.