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Obama’s DOJ nominee: a radical’s view on slavery
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What do you get when you mix a legal degree with a whole lot of crazy? Answer: Obama’s Department of Justice nominee, Dawn Johnsen.
As the former legal director for NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League), Dawn Johnsen is already far more liberal than most conservatives hoped for; however, after reading Andrew McCarthy’s article in the National Review, I’m afraid she’s far more fanatical than most of us imagined.
In the article, McCarthy discusses Johnsen’s Supreme Court brief written for Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. The case centered on a Missouri law that did not prohibit abortion, but did restrict the allocation of state funds for abortions. In her brief, Johnsen argues that placing such restrictions on women with unwanted pregnancies is comparable to slavery. She even threw in the 13th Amendment.
"Any restriction that makes abortion less accessible is, in [Johnsen's] view, tantamount to 'involuntary servitude' because it 'requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state's asserted interest [in the life of the unborn].'
In effect a 'woman is constantly aware for nine months that her body is not her own: the state has conscripted her body for its own ends.' Such 'forced pregnancy' she contends violates the 13th Amendment, which prohibits slavery."
In effect a 'woman is constantly aware for nine months that her body is not her own: the state has conscripted her body for its own ends.' Such 'forced pregnancy' she contends violates the 13th Amendment, which prohibits slavery."
Wow. Obama has nominated this woman to be head of the Office of Legal Counsel within the DOJ.
The idea that I should ever have to pay for another woman’s abortion irritates me to no end but Johnsen’s argument that the government was slave-holding women with ‘forced’ pregnancies is absolutely absurd.
The fact is, women have a right to choose but it shouldn't be an afterthought. Women and men have the choice to not have sex. It's people like Dawn Johnsen who set into play a whole slew of wrongs. Throwing around the word 'slavery' so the government will pay for someone else's choice is ridiculous and yet, here she is, nominated to head the OLC.
Obama’s made some remarkably bad choices in nominees but this one is inconceivable. We should all open our eyes and take a look at who our President is choosing to help him run this country. The Department of Justice is no joke but if Johnsen is confirmed, it may very well end up that way.
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