|
U.S. Rep. King: Life according to Dawn Johnsen, Obama administration nominee to head OLC 3/19/2009 Life According to Dawn Johnsen, Obama Administration Nominee to Head OLC · Pregnancy is equivalent to slavery: o “Statutes that curtail her abortion choice are disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state’s asserted interest.” – Dawn Johnsen, Supreme Court amicus brief that she authored in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services · Protecting life makes women into no more than “fetal containers”: o “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.’” –Dawn Johnsen, Supreme Court amicus brief that she authored in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services · Abortion brings relief: o “The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.” –Dawn Johnsen, Supreme Court amicus brief that she authored in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services · Those that become pregnant are “losers”: o “The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies reality…and others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more ‘consent’ to pregnancy than pedestrians ‘consent’ to being struck by drunk drivers.’”- Dawn Johnsen, Supreme Court amicus brief that she authored in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services · There is no need to reduce the number of abortions: o “Progressives must not portray all abortions as tragedies. . . Senator Hillary Clinton, in a 2005 speech commendable for setting forth a prochoice, pro-prevention, pro-family agenda, took the aspiration a step in the wrong direction when she called for policy changes so that abortion ‘does not ever have to be exercised or only in very rare circumstances.” -Dawn Johnsen in The Constitution in 2020 · Pro-life supporters are comparable to the Ku Klux Klan: o “The ‘terrorist’ behavior of petitioners is remarkably similar to the conspiracy of violence and intimidation carried out by the Ku Klux Klan...” –Dawn Johnsen, Supreme Court amicus brief that she authored in Bray v. Alexandria Women’s Health Clinic |
