Posted on 04/01/2009 1:27:55 PM PDT by chase19
Obama Nominee Dawn Johnsen has a Catholic Problem
By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights , Protecting Catholicism - March 31, 2009
In a few weeks, the Senate will vote on the nomination of Dawn Johnsen to be assistant attorney general in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel. Catholic League president Bill Donohue says the Catholic community should be given a heads up:
“As past staff counsel for the ACLU and legal director of NARAL (the most extreme pro-abortion group in the nation), Dawn Johnsen has done more than consort with the enemies of Catholicism—she has actively sought to undermine the Catholic Church.
“In the late 1980s, Johnsen worked on a lawsuit, United States Catholic Conference v. Abortion Rights Mobilization, that sought to strip the Catholic Church of its tax exempt status; she helped to prepare briefs securing standing for the plaintiffs. Thus, she is not simply a critic of the Catholic Church’s pro-life position—she wants to cripple the institution.
“Most Americans are repelled at the thought of a doctor jamming a scissors into the head of a baby who is 80 percent born. But not everyone. For example, Johnsen calls the term partial-birth abortion ‘intentionally provocative,’ but there is no evidence that she has ever described this hideous procedure that way. ?
“As soon as President Clinton took office in 1993, he took the occasion to sign five executive orders overturning abortion restrictions. Dawn Johnsen wrote every one of them. But it is more than abortion rights that motivates her—she wants to punish the Catholic Church.
“U.S. bishops strongly oppose the Freedom of Choice Act, a law so draconian that if it were enacted (Obama has said he will sign it) it could force Catholic hospitals to start performing abortions or have their funding pulled. Who helped to write this bill? Dawn Johnsen.
“To say that Johnsen has a Catholic problem is a monumental understatement.” http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/opinion-obama-nominee-dawn-johnsen-has-a-catholic-problem
Obama is well aware of her background and judging from his admin selections thusfar he has plans for the Catholic Church.
I love her on “Dancing With the Stars”! I’ve always said that ballroom dancing would be better with more backflips.
LOL Is this an April Fools joke?
But of course!
Almost everyone has done dancing with stars so not sure. :)
Here’s what this pro-militant pro-abortion woman used for a brief to the Supreme Court:
“The woman is constantly aware for nine months that her body is not wholly her own: the state has conscripted her body for its own ends. Thus, abortion restrictions “reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.”
Happy Fetal Container Day. Since they’re trying to take away Mothers Day perhaps this could be the new holiday...
**As past staff counsel for the ACLU and legal director of NARAL **
I don’t have to read any further.
Terrible appointee.
All of Obama’s appointees are horrible.
He is a radical left wing wanna-be dictator.
Just look at the people he had around him even before the election. They were all radical lefties.
And if you don’t think he is a racist just look at those facts too.
The racist factor is quite scary to me. It’s very evident.
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