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#  Hahn Walks Out on Dobson

May 16 2014

Written by Zamná Ávila.

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![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/May-2014/12040v.png)SAN PEDRO-James Dobson vowed to stay away from politics when he began his speech at the annual National Day of Prayer event in Washington D.C. on May 1.

“This is not what we are here for, to talk about who we elect and parties and all that,” said Dobson, founder of the conservative group Focus on the Family. “We just don’t do that. That’s not what the National Day of Prayer is all about.”

But that’s exactly what he didn’t do. Using morality as a pretext, he called President Barack Obama “the abortion president.”

“President Obama, before he was elected, made it very clear that he wanted to be the abortion president,” Dobson said. “He didn’t make any bones about it…. This is something that he really was going to promote and support, and he has done that, and in a sense he is the abortion president.”

Rep. Janice Hahn stood up, pointed her index finger at the speaker and told him, “This is inappropriate, before walking out on Dobson. *[(Read the rest here) ](http://www.randomlengthsnews.com/hahn-walks-out-on-dobson/)*

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