New House Speaker Blamed School Shootings on Teaching Evolution and Abortion<\/p>\n
Newly elected House<\/span> Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a> is a hardcore Christian nationalist who has a history of spouting extreme right-wing views<\/a> \u2014 including on mass shootings. The Louisiana Republican\u2019s record on guns has come under scrutiny in the wake of a shooter killing at least 18 people<\/a> 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read more at Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n New House speaker pushed for \u2018hard labor\u2019 for abortion providers after fall of Roe<\/p>\n Since Roe v Wade\u2019s demise, Johnson has co-sponsored a national 15-week abortion ban<\/a> as well as a ban on the most common second-trimester abortion method<\/a>.<\/p>\n He also co-sponsored bills to strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding<\/a>, to force providers to tell women<\/a> that they may be able to \u201creverse\u201d their abortions \u2013 a claim unproven by science<\/a> \u2013 and to make it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for a legal abortion without telling that minor\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n New House speaker Mike Johnson praised \u201818th-century values\u2019 in speech<\/p>\n