Mike Johnson Can’t Hide from Extreme Abortion Record Plastered to a Mobile Billboard Touring Washington
Mike Johnson Didn’t Even Finish His First Week as Speaker Before Free & Just Exposed his Extreme Abortion Record with a Mobile Billboard Tour of Capitol Hill and College Campuses
WASHINGTON — Mike Johnson has gone quiet on his plan to ban abortion access nationwide, but it will be hard to hide from his record while a mobile billboard, sponsored by Free & Just, tours Capitol Hill and area college campuses, including American University, Howard University, Georgetown University, and George Washington University from Wednesday, November 1 to Friday, November 3.
Statement from Chrystian Woods, Free & Just Senior Campaign Director:
“Mike Johnson’s record speaks for itself. We saw him celebrate the overturning of Roe v. Wade and we have read his tweets lauding the criminalization of abortion care. Now that Mike Johnson has become Speaker of the House, we are putting him on notice that we will not sit back and watch him roll back our freedoms. That’s why we are asking Americans to call Speaker Mike Johnson and tell him that Americans support abortion access.”
The mobile billboard will highlight newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson’s extreme anti-abortion agenda and calls on concerned Americans to call Speaker Johnson to voice their support for abortion access. You can see the creative for the mobile billboard here and here.
Creative for mobile billboard in Washington, D.C.
***MOBILE BILLBOARD DETAILS***
WHAT: Free & Just Mobile Billboard
WHEN: Wednesday, November 1 - Friday, November 3 (8am - 4pm)
WHERE: The mobile billboards will appear around Capitol Hill and DC-area college campuses Wednesday through Friday
Wednesday: Capitol/RNC/NRCC HQ
Thursday: College Campuses (Howard, GW, Georgetown, American)
Friday: Capitol/RNC/NRCC HQ
Background on Mike Johnson’s extreme record on abortion:
Mike Johnson has said repeatedly that he supports a national abortion ban and has introduced multiple pieces of legislation to ban and restrict access to abortion care. Johnson is an anti-abortion extremist, who will undoubtedly work to pass further abortion bans and restrictions.
Johnson has sponsored legislation that would ban abortion before most people even know they are pregnant.
Johnson has also co-sponsored so-called “fetal personhood” legislation
The consequences of putting “personhood” language into law could be sweeping. Not only would it criminalize abortion, but it could also ban stem cell research, assisted reproductive technology like IVF, and common forms of birth control.
Johnson supports criminalizing providers, praising a Louisiana law that would mean those who provide abortion care can be “imprisoned at hard labor for 1-10 yrs & fined $10K-$100K.”
Johnson has also supported legislation that would make the Hyde Amendment permanent and has called for the defunding of Planned Parenthood.
Before coming to Congress, Johnson spent years as a senior attorney and spokesperson at the Alliance Defending Freedom– the anti-abortion legal organization that helped engineer the end of Roe v. Wade.
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