AG who went on Fox News just to ’embarrass or burden’ OB/GYN who performed 10-year-old rape victim’s abortion ‘engaged in attorney misconduct,’ Indiana Supreme Court finds

Fox News host Jesse Watters, Indiana AG Todd Rokita, Dr. Caitlin Bernard

Fox News host Jesse Watters pictured (left), (center) Indiana AG Todd Rokita, Dr. Caitlin Bernard (right) during the July 13, 2022 “Doc Failed to Report Abortion of Abuse Victim” segment referenced in the AG’s disciplinary opinion (Fox News/screengrab)

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) got himself into hot water with the Indiana Supreme Court for July 13, 2022 remarks on Fox News about Caitlin Bernard, the doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled from Ohio to the Hoosier State after the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade that June.

Rokita, who later tried and failed to strip Bernard of her medical license, told Fox News host Jesse Watters that the OB-GYN was an “abortion activist acting as a doctor — with a history of failing to report.”

“Then we have the rape. And then we have this, uh, abortion activist acting as a doctor — with a history of failing to report. So, we’re gathering the information. We’re gathering the evidence as we speak, and we’re going to fight this to the end, uh, including looking at her licensure if she failed to report,” Rokita said, as transcribed by the state Supreme Court. “In Indiana, it’s a crime, uh, for, uh, to not report — uh, to intentionally not report.”

According to the per curiam opinion handed down Thursday, Rokita admitted the statements he made on Jesse Watters’ show amounted to “attorney misconduct,” in violation of two rules: “Making an extrajudicial statement that a lawyer participating in the litigation or investigation of a matter knows or reasonably should know will be publicly disseminated and will have a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing an adjudicative proceeding in the matter” and “Using means in representing a client that have no substantial purpose other than to embarrass, delay, or burden a third person.”

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