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Law’s Sharona Hoffman discussed Dave Yost’s public doubt over 10-year-old rape victim

Ohio attorney general said 10-year-old rape victim could have had abortion in Ohio, but state law isn’t clear

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WEWS: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, weighed in on the case of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, who found himself in the national spotlight after an interview with Fox News in which he cast doubt on the story of a 10-year-old Ohio girl who sought an abortion in Indiana because of Ohio’s new six-week abortion ban.