{"id":1600,"date":"2023-11-06T15:51:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T23:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2023-11-06T15:51:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T23:51:30","slug":"the-new-house-speaker-has-a-history-of-backing-legislation-against-reproductive-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/the-new-house-speaker-has-a-history-of-backing-legislation-against-reproductive-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"The new House speaker has a history of backing legislation against reproductive rights."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><a class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/mike-johnson-house-speaker_n_653934d8e4b011a9cf7c2649#:~:text=Mike%20Johnson%20(R%2DLa.,No%20Republicans%20opposed%20him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-item-name=\"Up until recently\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"65482bb2e4b01b258584342b\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/mike-johnson-house-speaker_n_653934d8e4b011a9cf7c2649#:~:text=Mike%20Johnson%20(R%2DLa.,No%20Republicans%20opposed%20him\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"4\">Up until recently<\/a>, Johnson was a low profile member of Congress, but he has been a staunch supporter of anti-abortion efforts. For example, Johnson is one of 29 co-sponsors for a January 2023 bill <a class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/boebert.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/rep-lauren-boebert-introduces-defund-planned-parenthood-act#:~:text=Congresswoman%20Lauren%20Boebert%20(CO%2D03,resources%20to%20community%20health%20centers.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-item-name=\"aiming to defund Planned Parenthood\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"65482bb2e4b01b258584342b\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/boebert.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/rep-lauren-boebert-introduces-defund-planned-parenthood-act#:~:text=Congresswoman%20Lauren%20Boebert%20(CO%2D03,resources%20to%20community%20health%20centers.\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"5\">aiming to defund Planned Parenthood<\/a>. He also voted against the Right to Contraception Act \u2014 which still managed to pass in the House last year \u2014 that would codify access to birth control.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/mike-johnson-fox-reproductive-rights_n_65482bb2e4b01b258584342b\">HuffPost<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until recently, Johnson was a low profile member of Congress, but he has been a staunch supporter of anti-abortion efforts. For example, Johnson is one of 29 co-sponsors for a January 2023 bill aiming to defund Planned Parenthood. He also voted against the Right to Contraception Act \u2014 which still managed to pass in &#8230; <a title=\"The new House speaker has a history of backing legislation against reproductive rights.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/the-new-house-speaker-has-a-history-of-backing-legislation-against-reproductive-rights\/\" aria-label=\"More on The new House speaker has a history of backing legislation against reproductive rights.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[253,252,41,137],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-abortion","tag-anti-contraception","tag-congress","tag-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}