November 3rd 2023.
A Washington D.C. mobile billboard sponsored by the non-profit Free & Just is taking shots at Louisiana Republican speaker Mike Johnson for his medically uninformed opinion on abortions. The billboard will make rounds at the end of next week, as Johnson continues to settle into his position as leader of the House.
Chrystian Woods, the campaign director of Free & Just, has expressed the organization’s mission to The Hill: “Mike Johnson’s record speaks for itself. 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.”
The mobile billboard will drive around college campuses in Capitol Hill and the busy D.C. area from Nov. 8 to 10. Projected on the side of the truck, the billboard shows Johnson’s face with an ominous red backlight and a notable quote of his plastered across the front, reading, “Extremely Dangerous For Women,” in reference to the exact words he said about abortion.
Free & Just wants to use the mobile billboard to spur people to call Johnson and convey the message that “Americans support abortion access.” The non-profit organization is critiquing the new House Speaker for his fervent support in implementing a national abortion ban and making a legislative push to restrict access to abortion related health care.
Johnson’s controversial views on abortion have been brought to the forefront after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. He’s been on record celebrating the Supreme Court decision and expressing his hopes to take it further to turn Louisiana into a zero-tolerance state for medical procedures. His anti-abortion legal push is based on his opinion that a “child in the womb [is a] unique human being with unique DNA” from the moment of its conception.
The nonprofit is concerned about what abortion topics and proposals Johnson could bring to the House floor, and wants to shed light on his extreme views. By creating this mobile billboard, Free & Just is making their stance clear and hoping to influence the decision-making of the newly elected Speaker of the House.
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