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Rokita is a hack
We’ll find out if the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission has the integrity to rule on the facts of the complaint against the state’s Republican attorney general, or if bends to the will of the state’s right-wing idealogical winds.
The article doesn’t describe how the commission is structured or what its procedures are. So we are left in the dark about what kind of intrigue – if any – may tinge the outcome.
Can’t stand Rokita, but it’s not like he was inaccurate in his accusations of this crooked sleazebag doctor.
How is the doctor a crooked sleazebag? She did nothing wrong!
She coordinated with docs in Ohio to get the little girl an abortion, deciding that was a greater priority than reporting the rape to the police, or that the hideous mother of this girl was comfortable with the illegal immigrant raping her daughter all along.
Dr. Bernard saw a chance to grandstand about her real passion–abortion–and waited until a strategic moment to tell the press.
Then Rokita saw a chance to grand stand about his real passion–anti-abortion–and do more or less the same thing.
They’re both sleazebags, but if you’re a passive consumer of our laughable joke of a newsmedia, they’d have you believe Dr. Bernard is being persecuted. She violated her own profession’s code of ethics so she could harness her personal code of ethics, and the newsmedia, predictably, is taking her side.
Glad she’s out of Indiana. Wish we could do the same to Rokita but people keep electing him.
None of that is true, Lauren.
Rokita is an elected official and held to a higher standard, one that he broke in his rush to head onto Fox News to resurrect his political career. If he wants to resign and/or give up his law license, he can say whatever he wants, whenever he wants, and can slop around in the mud with an abortion doctor.
Until then, the actual rule of law matters. Because all he’s managed do do is make an abortion doctor a sympathetic figure. If you told me he was a Democratic operative trying to advance Democratic causes by doing a bad job as a Republican, it would be more believable then … the idea he’s actually trying to accomplish Republican goals. He wins in court as much as Jerry Jones’ Dallas Cowboys win Super Bowls.
Leave it to the people most in thrall with the legacy media to step up and defend a crooked doctor.
Before Rokita rushed his head to Fox News, Bernard had already made her clandestine machinations with doctors in Ohio to get this little girl an abortion before she ever reported the obvious fact that a 10-year-old cannot be pregnant except through rape. As I said weeks ago, the doctors in Ohio could have used this to push for less draconian laws in the state. She had to withdraw her suit and she basically fled Indiana. Does Rokita have a vendetta against her because he’s an anti-abortion ideologue? Sure, but she was a pro-abortion ideologue who let her personal agenda cloud her judgment. No doubt she thinks she’s some sort of Harriet Tubman, all while prioritizing abortion over the criminal act of rape that led to the need for an abortion (and, yes, this girl most certainly had a compelling case for an abortion).
Utterly predictable that you’d find Bernard “sympathetic”. Do you have a SINGLE opinion that differs from the legacy media Joe?
Dr. Caitlin Bernard is scum. Needless to say, the media supports her too. But they’re scum as well. She’ll be perfect for Chicagoland.
You yammer on about legacy media more than you yammered on about Portland. You may as well tell me what brand of coffee you prefer. I don’t know where you get your information, but it’s lacking in substance.
She withdrew her suit because Rokita decided to file disciplinary charges, thereby moving the matter from the courts to going after her license. If the medical licensing board finds there was no reason to involve Indiana police with a crime that took place in Ohio and had been previously reported to Ohio police, which is the crux of Rokita’s case, Rokita will have lost again. How much you want to bet on Todd, given his track record of bad lawyering?
Rokita is currently using taxpayer dollars to try to expunge the simultaneous finding in a court of law that he broke the law because the facts hurt his feelings, and it also opened him up to sanctions for being bad at his job. He’s also continuing to use taxpayer dollars to go on a fishing expedition because surely he can find something to justify the flailing around he’s been doing.
Next you will try to tell me that they could have gotten the abortion in Ohio, despite the legislative finding that no, actually, she couldn’t have… and the quotes from the guy who wrote the law that, no, he wrote the law in that way for that reason, because he wants raped 10 year olds to have babies because maybe some day they will see the benefit.
Which is why Indiana’s law has rape and incest provisions that are clearly not in Ohio’s law … provisions that Indiana Right to Life fought because they weren’t hardcore enough.
Yes, abortion still bad. Even better would be to increase the efforts to reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies, which would reduce the number of people seeking abortions. Indiana should be doing more on this front but there are far too many legislators who think sex is only for procreation and … their interest in being pro-life ends when the baby is born. So, it’s tough sleddding.
You used to be a lot better at this. Maybe all that independent basement media and it’s truth-iness isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Lauren, the Indiana physician broke no Indiana laws because abortion was not (and still is not, pending judicial review) illegal.
Additionally, because the young girl in Ohio (or her parents, for that matter) broke no laws in their state by leaving Ohio and coming to Indiana for care, there was no need for Ohio authorities to be notified by any of the parties.
These are the stark facts. They are the only facts that matter.
Your weak attempt to confuse facts with opinions, and then join in the conversation here, reminds me that “it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.”
At most, he will get a reprimand. And that will make him a hero with the MAGA crowd.
Instead of all of the ideological comments about abortion and who’s the bigger sleaze bag, why is there no outrage over the expenditures at the taxpayer expense to hire an out of state lawyer to prosecute an administrative professional licensing case? If the AG’s office cannot handle its work then perhaps the sitting AG is not fit to hold the position.
How many are aware that Rokita recently signed onto a letter by the attorney general of Missouri warning Walgreens and CVS not to mail “Plan B” morning-after pills because doing so is both “dangerous” and “potentially illegal.”
Never mind that the FDA has issued guidance to pharmacies that, under federal law, using the mail to make such FDA-approved medication available is NOT illegal.
Further evidence that Rokita is not following the law in the administration of his office.
When you have a Lauren B to tango with Joe B it allows me to just keep grabbing more popcorn.
But, could Lauren B and Joe B live in the same household? Or even the same person?
I digress, just the old Finkle is Einhorn, Einhorn is Finkle premise. Ha!
J C B, I don’t understand what Foghorn Leghorn has to do with it. Though, come to think of it, Todd Rokita does seem like the same type of blowhard as that cartoon rooster.
Also, quite definitely not the same person. Better chance of you and Bob P. being the same person.