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Carter Sherman

House speaker Mike Johnson likened abortion to ‘American holocaust’

Mike Johnson at the Capitol earlier this year.
Mike Johnson at the Capitol earlier this year. Photograph: Sarah Silbiger/Reuters

Before he became speaker of the US House of Representatives, the Louisiana Republican congressman Mike Johnson likened abortion to “an American holocaust”.

“The reality is that Planned Parenthood and all these … big abortion … they set up their clinics in inner cities,” Johnson told a radio show in May 2022, in comments aired by CNN on Tuesday. “They regard these people as easy prey.”

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