Indiana’s Republican attorney general went on Fox vowing to investigate a physician who treated a 10-year-old rape victim. It only took a few hours for his stunt to fall flat. - MaddowBlog
yesterday, questioning whether the physician followed reporting requirements. “The failure to do so constitutes a crime in Indiana,” Rokita’s statement added.that the OBGYN in question, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, “not only filed a terminated pregnancy report but filed the report within the required timeframe.
Or put another way, Rokita’s claims unraveled with remarkable speed. As Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall, “In other words, Rokita went forward with a series of defamatory claims and accusations against Bernard and called down a nationwide campaign of harassment and vilification against her apparently without even the most cursory of records checks that were not only available to him as attorney general but members of the public in roughly 24 hours.
It was bad enough that the Republican Hoosier launched an offensive against the physician in the first place. We are, after all, talking about an OBGYN who treated a 10-year-old rape victim. But Rokita, a former member of Congress, made rather specific claims about alleged misconduct, which were contradicted — within hours — by evidence he could’ve reviewed before making accusations to a national audience.
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