Dawn Johnsen Abortionist War on Christianity

John R. Houk
© February 10, 2010

Dawn Johnsen is the typical pro-abortionist feminist that embodies the eugenics thoughts of Margaret Sanger to weed out inferior human beings at birth. Johnsen also typically believes the rights of a person’s (woman’s in particular) body outweighs a human’s right to life.

Yes I am pro-life. This means my thoughts put abortion into the realm of murder by usurping the right to live. Those that do not have a personal voice to express their desire to live need such a voice. For the most part that voice will come from Christian Protestants and Catholics who have an understanding that Biblical morality calls for the protection of children. This would include human souls that have not yet left the womb.

I don’t know if Dawn Johnsen would publicly admit, but her abortion stand is in contradistinction from Christian and Biblical morality that looks to save life rather than to terminate it. Numerous examples of her hatred of Christians are in her terminology for Pro-Life Christians. Johnsen has equated pro-life Christians with slavers and the Klu Klux Klan.

So you have to wonder the reason for my castigation of Dawn Johnsen. She is a Leftist that is part of President Barack Hussein Obama’s campaign promise to “Change” America. Change is equated with a Socialistic Secular Humanist society in which religion (well Christianity anyway) is a pathology of antiquated myths that has no direct line of effect toward modern culture because it is not relative to the will of multicultural diverse greater good. Thus Johnsen represents a long line of radical appointments (Constitutional and extra-Constitutional) that have an agenda that would weaken the influence of Christianity as the primary influence of what is right or wrong in America.

Representative Steve King (R. IA) can be seen in a video I found from Washington News Observer condemning Dawn Johnsen’s nomination as Legal Counsel for the DOJ.

JRH 2/10/10



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[Blog Editor: I originally linked the rest of the story to my initials to the older SlantRight.com archive site. Below is that update.]

Obama's Dawn Johnsen Appointment

By Ken Blackwell
January 26, 2010 
Townhall.com

Dawn Johnsen is President Obama’s nominee to head the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). It’s arguably the most important office at DoJ. OLC sets policy for the entire federal government.

When not serving in government, Dawn Johnsen has spent her career promoting abortion-on-demand. She denies there is even such a thing as Partial-Birth Abortion. Even the term, she maintains, is “intentionally provocative.” She does not think that “progressives”—that’s PC-speak for liberal—should suggest that abortion is ever a tragedy.

Not for Dawn Johnsen Bill Clinton’s slippery formulation: “Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.” Dismiss for the moment that Bill and Hillary Clinton did everything they could in their eight years to promote abortion world-wide. The only places they made abortion rare were on the Moon and in Antarctica.

Even the Clintons’ basic premise was flawed. If abortion is “a fundamental constitutional right,” as they said in every official document, then why should it be rare? Is there any other fundamental constitutional right we want to be rare? 

Hillary once said abortion is “wrong.” (Newsweek, 31 October 1994). Only once. But she pressed governments around the world to legalize it. That’s an odd way to deal with something you think is wrong.

Dawn Johnsen doesn’t think abortion is wrong at all. She is all for it. She drafted the five lethal Executive Orders that Bill Clinton signed within hours of taking the oath as President to promote easier access to abortion. Clinton struck down Ronald Reagan’s Mexico City Doctrine, allowing U.S. funds to go to Planned Parenthood and the UN Fund for Population. This order sluiced money to abortionists worldwide and even, as in China, to those who force women to have abortions.

Bill Clinton struck down Reagan’s order to Planned Parenthood to separate their so-called family planning activities from their abortion facilities. Under Bill Clinton—and up until the current day—teens can take devices and pills out one door and, when these fail, they are hustled back into the revolving door to the abortion center.

Johnsen goes much further in her pro-abortion militancy than even the Clintons, than even President Obama. She worked for years to strip the Catholic Church of its tax-exempt status. Why? Because the Catholic Church has never wavered in its outspoken defense of unborn children. Dawn Johnsen was part of the Abortion Rights Mobilization (ARM ) that fought a legal battle for eight years in the courts.

ARM’s assault on religious liberty and free speech was the brainchild of Lawrence Lader, the co-founder of NARAL, for whom Johnsen also worked. Lader said “abortion is central to everything in life and how we want to live it.” Johnsen’s record puts her very much in that camp. She has even likened pregnancy to slavery.

The Catholic Church would not be the only target if Johnsen is confirmed. Many Protestant churches and associations take pro-life stances. These include the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), and The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). All of these church bodies could find themselves in the cross-hairs if Dawn Johnsen is confirmed.

We are very close to seeing a nationalized Health Care bill pass through Congress and sent to President Obama for signature. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Penn.) has signaled us that the final bill that is being “ping-ponged” back and forth between Speaker Pelosi’s office and Sen. Harry Reid’s will likely include federal funding for abortion-on-demand. That’s bad enough. But we can see that if churches object to funding for killing the unborn, they could be targeted by Dawn Johnsen at the Office of Legal Counsel.

Chief Justice John Marshall famously said in McCullough v. Maryland that “the power to tax is the power to destroy.” That’s what Dawn Johnsen tried to do for eight years to the Catholic Church in America. That’s what she could do to your church if she is confirmed by the Senate.

Fear of losing their tax-exempt status has for too long kept Christian pastors from speaking out on the grave moral issues of the day. It shouldn’t be, but it is so.

Because of Dawn Johnsen’s pro-abortion extremism, because she has sought to impose a “chilling effect” on religious free speech, because she has tried to destroy churches, this ACLU lawyer should be rejected by the U.S. Senate.
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Dawn Johnsen Abortionist War on Christianity
John R. Houk
© February 10, 2010
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Obama's Dawn Johnsen Appointment
Mr. Blackwell, a contributing editor at Townhall.com, is a senior fellow at the Family Research Council and American Civil Rights Union.
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