EMILYs checklist added new Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to an inventory of Republicans it’s focusing on for his or her views on abortion forward of the 2024 Friday.
“MAGA Mike Johnson and his supporters have made their plan to ban abortion crystal clear. Each single one of many Republicans EMILYs Record has already put ‘On Discover’ voted to put in Johnson as speaker, endorsing his radical agenda and displaying their true priorities,” an announcement by EMILYs Record Interim President Jessica Mackler in a Friday launch obtained by Punchbowl Information reads.
“There’s no excuse for being, or supporting, an anti-abortion election-denying conspiracy theorist, and our basic rights are in jeopardy with this extremist and his supporters in workplace,” Mackler continues.
The “On Discover” checklist by the pro-abortion group that works to assist girls candidates was first reported on by Punchbowl Information again in February. Earlier than Johnson was added, a few of his Republican Home colleagues together with Reps. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Mike Garcia (R-Calif.) and Jen Kiggans (Va.) have been on the checklist.
Johnson’s views on abortion have lately come underneath scrutiny within the wake of his ascendancy to the Speakership. Feedback made by Johnson have been unearthed by journalists through which he threatened “onerous labor” for docs who carry out abortions and blamed college shootings on “radical feminism,” the sexual revolution and abortion rights.
Democratic Nationwide Committee (DNC) nationwide press secretary Sarafina Chitika instructed The Hill that Johnson “is an out-of-touch extremist who gained Donald Trump’s approval by main efforts to overturn the election, supporting a nationwide abortion ban and slashing Social Safety and Medicare, and spreading hateful vitriol concerning the LGBTQ group. That is the MAGA platform that’s taking on the GOP, but it surely’s wildly unpopular with voters.”
The Hill has reached out to Speaker Johnson’s workplace and EMILYs Record.
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