YOUR ACTION IS NEEDED: Please send appropriate messages to members of Congress in opposition for the forthcoming embryo-related legislation!

The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) today sent a letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives “to warn you that there is a substantial chance that you will soon see an attempt to ram through the House of Representatives, on short notice, legislation that would authorize federal funding of research on human embryos created specifically to be used in research, and open the door to federal funding of human cloning and human embryo farms.” 

The letter explains that, contrary to assurances given to Members of Congress and the public in the past, anticipated forthcoming legislation dealing with stem cell research will not limit the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to the use of human embryos who are donated by their parents after being “left over” at in vitro fertilization clinics, but will also empower NIH to use human embryos created especially to be used in research, including embryos created by human cloning. Read more…

We thought we had heard every out-of-left-field justification for slaughtering unborn babies imaginable. Until last Friday, that is, when we learned that ripping arms from the torsos of the little ones not only funnels millions of dollars into the war chest of Planned Parenthood, it is also a critical component in defeating Al-Qaida!

To be fair, when receiving PPFA’s “highest award,” pro-abortion Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can perhaps be forgiven for making even less sense than usual. There she was, at the annual conference of the nation’s largest abortion “provider,” receiving the Margaret Sanger award, in honor of the founder of PPFA. What could make everyone feel better at the Houston gala than to be told that directing “family planning” money into the hands of groups who never tire of finding new populations to thin out is an “indispensable ingredient of [the Obama Administration's use of] smart power”?

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Earlier this year, President Barack Obama nominated pro-abortion activist Dawn Johnsen to the position of assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel (AAG-OLC).  The AAG-OLC “provides authoritative legal advice to the President and all the Executive Branch agencies,” according to the Department of Justice website.  Thus, the person who serves as AAG-OLC plays an influential role both in construing existing laws and in evaluating the constitutional and legal implications of various legislative and administrative proposals.

Dawn Johnsen has a long history as a pro-abortion strategist, propagandist, and litigator, including about five years as legal director for NARAL, as well as work on behalf of the ACLU and Abortion Rights Mobilization.  Throughout her career, Johnsen has expressed her opposition to all limitations on abortion in vivid terms, and she has often criticized courts for being, in her view, insufficiently expansive in their application of pro-abortion legal doctrine. Read more…

The National Right to Life Committee sent a letter out last Friday to every Senator on Capital hill, urging them to oppose the nomination of Dawn Johnsen to the position of Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel (AAG-OLC). Johnsen, a former legal director at NARAL (the National Abortion Rights Action League), has long been a dedicated and vocal advocate for the pro-abortion lobbying industry, and her position in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel would give her extensive power within the administration as a legislative watchdog. In the words of NRLC’s action alert:

The person who serves as AAG-OLC plays an influential role both in construing existing laws and in evaluating the constitutional and legal implications of various legislative and administrative proposals.

Johnsen’s position then, would be a sort of “lawyer’s lawyer” to the Executive branch, giving her immense power to frame legal cases through her pro-abortion ideological framework.

Johnsen is not above twisting the Constitution in the interests of “reproductive rights.” In a legal brief she once wrote that legal limitations on abortion (such as ultrasound laws or waiting periods) are:

Disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires a women to provide continous physical to the fetus.

Forced pregnancy equals slavery according to Dawn Johnsen.

If you happen to disagree with President Obama’s nominee for the position of Assistant Attorney General to the Office of Legal Counsel, please follow the link below to read NRLC’s Action Alert, see a copy of the letter sent to the Senate, and send a message to your two Senators urging them not to confirm Dawn Johnsen.

http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/issues/alert/?alertid=13020026&type=CO