Rep. Janice Hahn Asks James Dobson To Apologize For ‘Abortion President’ Remarks

U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn (D-CA)m who walked out of the National Day of Prayer gathering May 1 after James Dobson called President Obama the “Abortion President,” has written a letter to Dobson asking him to apologize.

“Last week when I attended the National Day of Prayer, I expected a day to bring people in our nation and Congress together,” she wrote in the letter obtained by Roll Call.” Instead, your remarks were divisive and I thought inappropriate for this non-partisan event. I think you owe the members of Congress who took time out of their busy day to attend an apology.”

“This would be the first step in healing a wound you inflicted with your disrespectful and inappropriate speech.”

Hahn was a co-chairwoman of the National Prayer Breakfast in February and oversees, with Texas Republican Louie Gohmert, a congressional prayer breakfast for colleagues each week.

As previously reported in the Inquisitr, Dobson said “Before (Obama) was elected, he made it very clear that he wanted to be the abortion president. He didn’t make any bones about it, that this is something he’s really going to promote and support. And he has done that. And in a sense, he is the abortion president.”

Dobson is the founder of Focus on the Family, and the host of radio talk show “Family Talk” told those assembled in the Cannon Caucus Room that Obama’s promotion of policies forcing taxpayers to fund abortion services was offensive to (his) very conscience.

Hahn said about his comments, “He goes on about health care and…providing abortions, and at that point I stood up and pointed my finger at him and walked out.”

The National Day of Prayer (NDP) website includes a disclaimer noting although NDP Task Force Chairwoman Shirley Dobson is the wife of James Dobson, the event is in no way affiliated with Focus on the Family or “Family Talk.”

The Huffington Post reported Hahn emphasized her own religious upbringing with missionary grandparents, recalling how she listened to Dobson’s conservative “Focus on the Family” show regularly as a young mother.

“I am a person of strong faith, which comes from my family — including my grandparents, who were missionaries in Japan,” she wrote.

“You missed what the American public wants — the end of partisan bickering and coming together for our great nation. We can always find things that divide us. It is harder — but more rewarding — to find common ground.”

Hahn is in her second term representing California’s 44th district.

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