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To lead the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, a post calling for nonpartisan, academic rigor, Obama chose Dawn Johnsen, a Bush-bashing, left-wing ideologue so extreme that she has analogized abortion restrictions to state "conscription" of the woman's body and called them a form of "involuntary servitude" in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition of slavery.(The Week)(Barack Obama)(Brief article)

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To lead the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, a post calling for nonpartisan, academic rigor, Obama chose Dawn Johnsen, a Bush-bashing, left-wing ideologue so extreme that she has analogized abortion restrictions to state "conscription" of the woman's body and called them a form of "involuntary servitude" in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition of slavery. When pressed about this contention at her confirmation hearing, she attacked as "false" the profile about her that Andrew McCarthy wrote for NR's March 9 edition before admitting that he had, indeed, quoted her accurately. Still, she insisted she'd "made no Thirteenth Amendment ...

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