The physician on the middle of a firestorm over abortion rights despatched a stop and desist letter to Indiana Lawyer Normal Todd Rokita on Friday demanding that he cease “making false and deceptive statements” about her to the press.

An legal professional for Caitlin Bernard — the OB-GYN who carried out an abortion on a 10-year-old rape survivor from Ohio whose case grabbed nationwide consideration this week — instructed Rokita that his public risk to criminally prosecute her and his suggestion that she didn’t report the abortion to the right state authorities “types the idea of an actionable defamation declare.”

The letter notes that Rokita, a Republican, continued to publicly query whether or not Bernard adopted the legislation even after media shops together with POLITICO obtained information that confirmed she did report the abortion to each the Departments of Well being and Baby Providers throughout the required timeframe. The AG’s statements, her staff argues, put her in bodily hazard.