Mike Johnson Said Letting People Get Abortions Is Causing “an American Holocaust”

Hello and welcome to day 28 of the Here’s Another Terrifying Thing About Mike Johnson Show. Since he was elected House Speaker on October 25, a no good, very bad revelation about the GOP lawmaker has emerged near daily. Today, it involves abortion, contraception, gay sex, and his general outlook on humanity, which is that humans are “inherently evil” and need to be “restrained” by the government.

On the abortion front, CNN’s KFILE reports that in 2022—as in just last year—Johnson said reproductive freedom in the US was “truly an American holocaust,” adding: “The reality is that Planned Parenthood and all these big abortion (providers), they set up their clinics in inner cities. They regard these people as easy prey. I mean, it’s true.” The same year, he said he was “grateful to be from Louisiana, one of the dozen states or so that has a trigger law that will automatically become an abortion-free state, pro-life,” referring to the law on the books since 2006 that banned abortion, with no exceptions, upon Roe v. Wade being overturned. Not at all surprisingly, the Louisiana representative supported the 2021 “heartbeat bill,” which effectively banned abortion after six weeks, when many people do not even know they’re pregnant.

Johnson’s views on contraception, same-sex marriage, and sex between people who are not one man and one woman? Not any better! Per KFILE:

Johnson…voiced support for revisiting Supreme Court decisions that struck down restrictions on the use of contraception, barred bans on gay sex and legalized same sex marriages, according to a CNN review of his prior public statements. On a conservative talk radio show the day the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022, Johnson underscored Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion that the high court should reconsider those other landmark rulings. Johnson, citing his years as an attorney against “activist courts,” defended Thomas’s view, insisting that what Thomas was calling for was, “not radical. In fact, it’s the opposite of that.”

“There’s been some really bad law made,” he said. “They’ve made a mess of our jurisprudence in this country for the last several decades. And maybe some of that needs to be cleaned up.”

When asked about Johnson’s post-Roe comments, a spokesman for the congressman told CNN that Johnson “views the cases as settled law.”

“Speaker Johnson embraces a view that is not only outside of the mainstream but is so radical in terms of his endorsement of the Thomas position, that even the extremely conservative Supreme Court majority isn’t willing to go there,” Norm Eisen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, told CNN. “It would take the country back more than a half-century.”

As for Johnson’s general outlook on life? His fellow humans are destined for hell, and it’s the job of the government to stop them from indulging in their worst impulses. “One of the primary purposes of the law in civil government is to restrain evil,” Johnson said in 2010, according to CNN. “We have to acknowledge collectively that man is inherently evil and needs to be restrained.”