House Speaker Mike Johnson has long been fighting to block access to birth control, both inside and outside of Congress.
— still lawyer, and not yet a public official — spoke about his efforts challenging the Department of Health and Human Services’ contraceptive mandate, a provision of the Affordable Care Act that required employers to provide birth control coverage as part of their insurance plans. “Everybody asks us all the time: ‘Why do you guys care so much? The HHS mandate it’s really just about contraception, sterilization.
Johnson is known for being among the most anti-abortion lawmakers in Congress, and for railing against the use of “” before he was in office. But his statements and actions suggest he does not see much difference between abortion as a form of birth control andAs a lawyer, Johnson worked on multiple cases representing plaintiffs who refused to dispense, counsel or provide emergency contraception, which they considered to be abortion-inducing drugs.
At the time Johnson equated emergency contraception with abortion at the Louisiana Right to Life Forum, he was part of the legal team representing Louisiana College. The small Christian college, based in Pineville, was suing Kathleen Sebelius, then secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services over the ACA requirement that the college provide birth control coverage for its employees.
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