New House Speaker Blamed School Shootings on Teaching Evolution and Abortion
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson is a hardcore Christian nationalist who has a history of spouting extreme right-wing views — including on mass shootings. The Louisiana Republican’s record on guns has come under scrutiny in the wake of a shooter killing at least 18 people in Maine on Wednesday, and in addition to opposing gun control legislation, the man who is now second in line for the presidency has blamed mass shootings on both teaching evolution and abortion.
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New House speaker pushed for ‘hard labor’ for abortion providers after fall of Roe
Since Roe v Wade’s demise, Johnson has co-sponsored a national 15-week abortion ban as well as a ban on the most common second-trimester abortion method.
He also co-sponsored bills to strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding, to force providers to tell women that they may be able to “reverse” their abortions – a claim unproven by science – and to make it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for a legal abortion without telling that minor’s parents.
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New House speaker Mike Johnson praised ‘18th-century values’ in speech