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He’s a hack and with any luck should lose his license.
Agree!
Also agree! His behavior in this issue has been despicable — as if he has a vendetta against Dr. Bernard. Outrageous and he needs to be out of office!
Why did this take a year? If someone did something this boneheaded and illegal at my job, it wouldn’t take a day to have it documented and have them fired.
I agree … but this is Indiana.
Charles M. ~ when moving properly, the wheels of justice turn slowly.
And we keep electing these Republican imbeciles why?
People believe the lies about trickle down economics, despite 40 years of wealth migrating upward and away from the middle class. People believe the lies that crime will go down when everyone is armed with lethal weapons, despite the evidence this works nowhere in the world. People believe the lies that defunding the tax police is good for everybody. In addition, to make sure voters don’t really have a say, these same Republican politicians have gerrymandered the voting maps to the point where there isn’t even debate in the state house. Do I need to go on?
At some point I used to believe the old saw, you can’t fool all of the people all of the time, but Republican politicians, along with all of the right wing propaganda has proven otherwise.
100% spot on!
He is an embarrassment to Indiana
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy…
A case can be made that by publicly referring to Dr. Bernard as an “abortion activist acting as a doctor,” Rokita defamed Dr. Bernard’s professional credentials and integrity.
Such a comment just begs for a defamation lawsuit against the attorney general.
That statement about Dr. Bernard is (mostly) true. She is a doctor. And she’s an abortion activist. And, for one particular incident, she allowed her abortion activism to supersede her responsibilities as a doctor, as did the doctors in Ohio with whom she coordinated.
She doesn’t deserve the vendetta that Rokita clearly has for her. And there are few more clear-cut cases where an abortion is justified. But Bernard’s hands are hardly clean. She allowed a little girl to stay with the girl’s illegal immigrant rapist (and complicit mother) while she grandstanded for abortion rights. She received a minor fine and a censure for her ethical lapses which she 100% deserved.
Lauren, you could not be more wrong (as usual) about the underlying facts of this case.
Lauren, “acting as a doctor” is certainly defamatory. And it is completely out of her hands who the girl stayed with afterwards. She is not law enforcement!
Thank you for the complement Brent.
I am, of course, right as usual, and you are utterly dependent on your selective reporting to develop your skewed understanding of reality. I’m even taking the middle ground, criticizing Rokita where it’s deserved and recognizing that this was a justified abortion.
But the reality can’t be ignored: Dr. Bernard had to take her lumps because she violated medical ethics in the sequence in which she choose to address the issue. It was first and foremost a criminal consideration before it was a medical (pro-choice) concern.
If I am “wrong as usual”, then why didn’t Bernard decide to appeal the Indiana Medical Licensing Board decision? https://www(dot)wbaa(dot)org/2023-08-30/dr-caitlin-bernards-case-with-licensing-board-finished-both-sides-decline-appeals
Randy, Dr. Bernard may not be law enforcement but she certainly knows her responsibility within the constrains of HIPAA regarding a medical condition caused by a criminal act. She and the activist doctors in Ohio decided not to report the rapist (or the complicit mother) until later in the process, giving the rapist further opportunity to continue abusing this little girl.
“You are utterly dependent on your selective reporting to develop your skewed understanding of reality.”
Um.
“Bernard filed the required abortion disclosure, known as a “terminated pregnancy” form, on July 2, two days after she performed the girl’s abortion, according to a copy of the form IndyStar received Thursday from the state health department. State law requires the forms to be filed within three days for patients under age 16.”
Here’s the reality – Dr. Bernard’s crime, as prosecuted by Todd Rokita, is making Todd Rokita look like a fool. He should be disbarred for not even attempting to research before opening his trap.
You can’t go on Fox News and claim someone has a history of failing to report when you have no evidence.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2022/07/14/ohio-abortion-10-year-old-indiana-todd-rokita-dr-caitlin-bernard/65373626007/
(By the way, you can post links just fine if you do one per post. There’s no need to do this dot nonsense.)
Gosh, I was wrong…the Disciplinary Commission didn’t wait for Rokita to litigate the claim against IU Health. I think we’ll find Mr. Rokita being disciplined…the question is whether he’ll have to resign, or will it just be a public reprimand. Because as many of us remember, a Hancock County judge admitted to driving over to his son’s house while under the influence of narcotics to “oversee” the son’s soon to be ex-wife removing items from the marital home, under the supervision of Greenfield police, admitted to being under the influlcence of narcotics when he verbally accosted a neighbor, and then apparently drove home still under the influence of narcotics, all without any thing more than a public reprimand. Had ANY OTHER CITIZEN admitted to all that conduct, and especially the driving part, while under the influence of narcotics, the good judge Davis would have likely thrown them in jail (unless of course they were an influential Republican).
So my hopes are raised, but only just a little. Maybe the Indiana Supreme Court has decided Rokita is an embarrasment and needs to go prior to the upcoming election season.
The AG position in Indiana should be appointed by the governor such that we can get AGs who actually make protecting Hoosiers their number 1 priority. Rokita is on a populist attention-seeking crusade at the expense of all of us.
+1
While I think he is just wasting Indiana Taxpayer dollars on culture war issues, here is my prediction. He will get a fine. If he does get a suspension, Curtis Hill has already paved the way for Rokita to keep his job. After he’s fined and or suspended, he will start attacking “deep state” government, because in his mind, Laws don’t apply to Republican politicians, especially ego driven bombastic culture warriors who are out to righteously “own the libs”.
Also +1. Sad, but true: this is deep-red Indiana, where culture warriors get votes and influence. He’ll get off with a wrist slap and then use that as more fuel for his “burn it down” rhetoric. Amazing how these grifters keep getting elected.