GOP Indiana AG Reprimanded For Attack On Doctor

The Associated Press reports:

Indiana’s attorney general violated professional conduct rules in statements he made about a doctor who provided an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio in the weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer, according to a court opinion filed Thursday. The Indiana Supreme Court’s disciplinary commission found Todd Rokita, a Republican who opposes abortion, “engaged in attorney misconduct.”

The opinion specifically faulted Rokita for describing Dr. Caitlin Bernard on Fox News as an “abortion activist acting as a doctor — with a history of failing to report” instances of abuse. The opinion said Rokita violated two rules of professional conduct by making an “extrajudicial statement that had a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing an adjudicative proceeding and had no substantial purpose other than to embarrass or burden the physician.”

Read the full article. Rokita is denying the meager fine.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita was reprimanded and ordered to pay $250 by the state’s Supreme Court for misconduct.

FULL STORY:https://t.co/VZeYcqz3wF

— FOX59 News (@FOX59) November 2, 2023

I was not found to have violated anyone’s confidentiality or any laws. I was not fined. And I will continue as Indiana’s duly-elected attorney general. Read my full statement here: https://t.co/eExPU2VATf

— AG Todd Rokita (@AGToddRokita) November 2, 2023