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This just in from the Catholic League:

OBAMA NOMINEE’S CATHOLIC PROBLEM

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.”

Let's write to Senator Bob Casey telling him that we will watch his confirmation vote for this lawyer who believes that an unwilling pregnacy is "forced servitude."

Why should anyone be surprised? And does anyone honestly think that Obama will nominate a prolife person for any cabinet position?

Joe

Joe's right. No one should be surprised that a pro-abortion president is advancing pro-abortion policies. Those who voted for Obama voted for this expansion of abortion rights no matter what they claim.

As long as he is going to have living Democrats in his cabinet what choice does he have...not that he would choose a pro-lifer even if there were any pro-life Democrats.

CDL

There are a handful, but not very many.

Former Governor Miler of Nevada (who defeated a pro-choice republican, iirc).

One of the big names in Pennsylvania, iirc.

The governor that wasn't allowed to speak at the last democratic convention.

They're endangered, but rare.

What I'd like is a pro-life democrat who understands basic economics, understands that Thomas and Scalia have by far the keenest understanding of the Constitution, and will work for social values *within* the constraints of the Constitution, instead of insisting (like the other 7 judges on the court, save for Kennedy on his good days) that it means what he wants to happen.

Until then, I'm stuck with Republicans and third party candidates

Dawn Johnson is simply another of the leuge of Darkness, who must be overcome with light, and hoefullywill be overcome by light and change her heart toward Christ.

I will pray for her.