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AG Rokita to speak at IU, protest scheduled 

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita agreed to allow longtime political writer Abdul-Hakim Shabazz to attend his news conferences like any other journalist. (Brandon Smith/IPB News)
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita agreed to allow longtime political writer Abdul-Hakim Shabazz to attend his news conferences like any other journalist. (Brandon Smith/IPB News)

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is coming to the Whittenberger Auditorium at IU Memorial Union Friday.  

Rokita polarized many IU faculty, students and staff in July when he threatened to investigate an IU School of Medicine physician who provided an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim. A protest and teach-in is already scheduled by the College Democrats at Indiana University.  

Help us show Attorney General Todd Rokita what ‘individual freedoms’ really are. See you tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/AZua0iMBMl — College Democrats at IU (@DemocratsAtIU) September 22, 2022

Read more: IU doctor says attack on OBGYN colleague ‘terrifying’ for medical community  

Rokita was invited to speak by the ISI Buckley Society, which previously hosted controversial conservative pundit Anne Coulter.   

On its Eventbrite page, the ISI Buckley Society at IU says Rokita will “speak to the pernicious effects of the postmodern and neo-marxist tendencies now taking hold in public universities.”  

Ethan Sandweiss is a multimedia journalist for Indiana Public Media. He has previously worked with KBOO News as an anchor, producer, and reporter. Sandweiss was raised in Bloomington and graduated from Reed College with a degree in History.