House Speaker Mike Johnson has a history of supporting anti-abortion policies.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has been put “on notice” by EMILYs List, a political action committee aimed at electing women who support abortion rights.
Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, became second in line to the presidency after being voted in as Speaker by the GOP on October 25, following the ousting of Representative Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, on October 3.
Critics have pointed to Johnson’s far-right conservative views, and called him an “extremist”, when it comes to social issues like LGBTQ+ rights and women’s rights.
Before his political career, Johnson served as senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, formerly Alliance Defense Fund, from 2002 to 2010. The ADF has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which states that ADF called for the re-criminalization of sexual acts between consenting LGBTQ adults in the U.
