Obama DOJ Nominee Once Compaired Pregnancy to Slavery

  I am a little late with this story, I apologize, but this is a story that still needs to be written about.

   Dawn Johnsen, who is President Obama’s nominee for the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel once equated pregnancy to slavery. She did this in a brief filed with the Supreme Court in 1989 while she was working for NARAL.

In the papers, Johnsen said that any restriction that makes abortion less accessible is, in her 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 Thirteenth Amendment, which prohibits slavery.

  When she was first questioned by Arlen Specter about this radical view during her senate confirmation hearing she tried to deny ever writing those words but as she was pressured by Specter she relented and admitted that the words filed in the Supreme Court brief were indeed her words. Now she claims that she is shocked by her former words but still claims she made no 13th amendment analogy. But she clearly did.

  This radical view is exactly the kind of view that would draw Obama towards her for a cabinet position. This president is the most far left leaning president the country has ever had. He believes, as does Johnsen, that ANY restrictions on abortion are a threat to Roe vs Wade and so they must be squashed. Even if that means trying to argue that pregnancy violates the 13th amendment.

  On top of these offensive statement she also tried to lie about it during her senate confirmation hearing. Another ethical pick by the president.

  You can read more about this, including the transcript between Johnsen and Specter here. I recommend it.