{"id":1030372,"date":"2024-03-27T22:36:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T22:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1030372"},"modified":"2024-05-10T19:20:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T19:20:03","slug":"%f0%9f%9a%a8new-maga-mike-johnson-railed-against-medication-abortion-and-telemedicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/%f0%9f%9a%a8new-maga-mike-johnson-railed-against-medication-abortion-and-telemedicine\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea8NEW: MAGA Mike Johnson Railed Against Medication Abortion and Telemedicine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to new reporting that MAGA Speaker Mike Johnson railed against medication abortion and access to telemedicine for reproductive health care, <\/em>DNC spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMAGA Mike Johnson says something straight out of Donald Trump\u2019s anti-choice playbook every time he opens his mouth, and this rant against medication abortion and telemedicine is just another step in his crusade to rip away reproductive health care from women across the country. Johnson\u2019s plan to further restrict women\u2019s health care and basic freedoms is out of touch and downright cruel \u2014 but given Trump\u2019s agenda to ban abortion nationwide, it\u2019s no surprise. If Johnson wants to continue ignoring the voters who keep rejecting Republicans\u2019 anti-choice agenda, he\u2019s in for the loss of a lifetime this November.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an unhinged rant, MAGA Mike Johnson railed against access to medication abortion and telemedicine that provides women with necessary reproductive health care.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson<\/a>: \u201cOne of the things we’re trying to be on the lookout for is the rise, the use of chemical abortions because there\u2019s this move towards telemedicine and off-site medical treatment and that kind of thing. So there will be a push and, you know, <\/strong>the other side will say, \u2018This is very compassionate, what about the evolving nature of medicine, we need to be able to treat people remotely, and so we\u2019ll just mail them a chemical that will induce the abortion\u2019 \u2014 a pill or syringe or whatever it is. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have to be very vigilant about that, the states are going to have to ramp up regulation of off-site medical treatment \u2014 and those are good innovations because it helps a lot of people when you\u2019re talking about true medical help. But in the abortion industry, Planned Parenthood and the abortion cartels are going to try their best to maximize profits with that of course, because they always put profit over people.<\/strong> And we\u2019ve got to be watching for that, that\u2019s going to be one of these new emerging areas, I think, as telemedicine takes off and becomes more common and more prevalent. <\/strong>So particularly out in the rural areas, you know, it\u2019s going to be a big thing to watch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo we\u2019ll have some legislation to try and address that as well<\/strong>, but again, I keep coming back to the same issue that, you know, it really comes down to the election if \u2026 the pro-abortion Democrats are allowed to maintain control of the House, we\u2019re kind of stuck on go because we can\u2019t move this important legislation. And they\u2019re never going to allow it in any of the larger bills. So we got to be really active and engaged in this cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson has a long record of attacking reproductive health care \u2014 including co-sponsoring<\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>the Life at Conception Act, which could rip away access to IVF treatment from families across the country. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business Insider<\/a>: \u201cMost House Republicans have cosponsored a bill declaring that life begins from the moment of conception, a position under increased scrutiny after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are \u2018unborn children.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis Congress, 125 House Republicans \u2014 including Speaker Mike Johnson \u2014 have cosponsored the \u2018Life at Conception Act,\u2019<\/strong> which states that the term \u2018human being\u2019 includes \u2018all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into being.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe bill does not include any exception for in vitro fertilization (IVF), a reproductive treatment that allows mothers to fertilize several eggs outside the womb in order to increase the chances of a viable pregnancy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cBut with the landmark Roe ruling protecting those rights gone, efforts by conservative lawmakers and judges to advance fetal personhood bills pose a real threat to some fertility treatments, including IVF<\/strong>, reproductive rights advocates say.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson<\/a>: \u201c\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8BREAKING: Late yesterday, the La. Department of Health informed abortion facilities in our state that the right to life has now been RESTORED!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perform an abortion and get imprisoned at hard labor for 1-10 yrs & fined $10K-$100K.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jezebel<\/a>: \u201c[Johnson] expressed hope that Roe v. Wade would someday be overturned, railed against people supposedly \u2018using abortion as birth control\u2019 and appeared to blame school shootings on abortion: \u2018When you break up the nuclear family, when you tell a generation of people that life has no value, no meaning, that it\u2019s expendable, then you do wind up with school shooters.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reminder: Johnson\u2019s MAGA leader Donald Trump appealed a pandemic-era court order that allowed women to take abortion medication without visiting a doctor in person.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNBC<\/a>: \u201cTrump administration asks Supreme Court to reinstate abortion pill restrictions judge has suspended due to coronavirus\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

19th News<\/a>: \u201cThe [Trump] administration is currently arguing that<\/strong> the Supreme Court<\/strong><\/a> undo a lower court order that allowed people in the pandemic to take mifepristone \u2014 a drug used as part of medication abortions \u2014 from home, without visiting a doctor in person. <\/strong>Appealing such a ruling straight to the Supreme Court and bypassing the appeals process was uncommon prior to Trump\u2019s presidency, but has become a frequent strategy for the administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NPR<\/a>: \u201cSupreme Court OKs White House Request To Limit Abortion Pill Access During Pandemic\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Family Foundation<\/a>: \u201cOn March 4, 2019, the Trump Administration published new final regulations that restores Reagan-era restrictions regarding abortion and Title X. The primary goal of these regulations is to block the availability of federal funds to family planning providers, such as Planned Parenthood, that also offer abortion services with non-Title X funds and to prohibit sites that receive Title X funds from referring pregnant patients to other providers for abortion services.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Johnson, and their MAGA allies have made extremely clear that if given the chance, they\u2019ll ban abortion nationwide.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cTrump Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide: Report\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cThere of course remains a vital role for the federal government in protecting unborn life. And it\u2019s very important.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump on if he would sign a six-week national abortion ban<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m looking at all [options].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project 2025<\/a>: \u201cFDA should \u2026 Reverse its approval of chemical abortion drugs because the politicized approval process was illegal from the start. \u2026 Now that the Supreme Court has acknowledged that the Constitution contains no right to an abortion, the FDA is ethically and legally obliged to revisit and withdraw its initial approval, which was premised on pregnancy being an \u2018illness\u2019 and abortion being \u2018therapeutically\u2019 effective at treating this \u2018illness.\u2019 The FDA is statutorily charged with guaranteeing the safety and efficacy of drugs and therefore should withdraw this drug that is proven to be dangerous to women and by definition fatally unsafe for unborn children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cThe Heritage Foundation, which has proposed detailed policies for a potential GOP administration, argues that Comstock \u2018unambiguously prohibits mailing abortion drugs\u2019 and says the next administration should \u2018enforce federal law against providers and distributors of [abortion] pills.\u2019”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Atlantic<\/a>: \u201cTheir next goal will be ending legal abortion in America once and for all. \u2026 Their ultimate aim in reviving the Comstock Act is to use it to shut down every abortion facility \u201cin all 50 states.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to new reporting that MAGA Speaker Mike Johnson railed against medication abortion and access to telemedicine for reproductive health care, DNC spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement:  \u201cMAGA Mike Johnson says something straight out of Donald Trump\u2019s anti-choice playbook every time he opens his mouth, and this rant against medication abortion and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\ud83d\udea8NEW: MAGA Mike Johnson Railed Against Medication Abortion and Telemedicine - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/\ud83d\udea8new-maga-mike-johnson-railed-against-medication-abortion-and-telemedicine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-27T22:36:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-10T19:20:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/%f0%9f%9a%a8new-maga-mike-johnson-railed-against-medication-abortion-and-telemedicine\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/%f0%9f%9a%a8new-maga-mike-johnson-railed-against-medication-abortion-and-telemedicine\/\",\"name\":\"\ud83d\udea8NEW: MAGA Mike Johnson Railed Against Medication Abortion and Telemedicine - 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