{"id":1554951,"date":"2022-07-14T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1554951"},"modified":"2022-07-14T17:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T21:05:25","slug":"youre-absurd-reps-cohen-and-johnson-exchange-heated-words-over-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youre-absurd-reps-cohen-and-johnson-exchange-heated-words-over-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You\u2019re Absurd!\u2019: Reps. Cohen And Johnson Exchange Heated Words Over Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyoure-absurd-reps-cohen-and-johnson-exchange-heated-words-over-abortion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1554951&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/69180-e1657817999332.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republican Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson and Democratic Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen exchanged heated words during Thursday\u2019s House Judiciary Committee hearing on Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen claimed Canada is the \u201cfreest country in the world,\u201d and described \u201cseveral other nations\u201d as freer than America due to having fewer restrictions on abortion. He called the return of abortion regulations to the states a \u201cred herring,\u201d comparing abortion restrictions to slavery and the Confederacy.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson hit back at the Tennessee representative\u2019s remarks, calling the U.S. the \u201cthe most free, most successful [and] most powerful nation\u201d due to the nation living up to the American ideals of protecting the right to life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour comments are absurd,\u201d Johnson said as Cohen attempted to interrupt. \u201cThis hearing is absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour comments are absurd, you\u2019re absurd!\u201d Cohen said.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said American government officials have a constitutional obligation to \u201cprotect the sanctity of human life,\u201d given that the Declaration of Independence declares citizens have an \u201cinalienable right\u201d to life. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/13\/ralph-norman-presses-pro-abortion-witnesses-infanticide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: GOP Rep Presses Pro-Abortion Witnesses On Whether They Support \u2018Infanticide\u2019)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis hearing is absurd,\u201d Johnson continued. \u201cThe Democrat majority has called us here for this hearing entitled \u2018The Threat To Individual Freedoms in a Post-Roe World.\u2019 Come on. The first inalienable, individual freedom is the right to be born, the right to life. We declared that in our nation\u2019s birth certificate. America should continue to uphold the sanctity of human life and state and local and federal governments have a duty, a constitutional responsibility, to protect that fundamental right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He criticized the pro-abortion movement and lawmakers for allegedly attempting to \u201ctrample on the individual freedoms\u201d of those they disagree with, pointing to the pro-abortion group, Shut Down D.C., offer of $200 \u201cbounties\u201d for the disclosure of the whereabouts of conservative Supreme Court justices. Associate Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/08\/brett-kavanaugh-protesters-mortons-steakhouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brett Kavanaugh<\/a> recently escaped a crowd of protesters outside a Morton\u2019s Steakhouse in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>He then cited Democratic Massachusetts <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/12\/elizabeth-warren-shut-down-crisis-pregnancy-centers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sen. Elizabeth Warren\u2019s<\/a> call to \u201cshut down\u201d crisis pregnancy centers across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s appalling for her to say that,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are 2,700 pregnancy centers all around this country, all 50 states. They\u2019re supported by over 10,000 licensed medical professionals, they annually serve approximately 2 million women and men. I was a legal counselor for many of these pregnancy centers, I can tell you from my own experience they do exceptional, critical work. Why would anybody want to shut down pregnancy centers that exist to provide counseling, care, aid, and comfort for struggling mothers who just want to have their babies? It defies logic, but the answer is simple. Their extreme agenda demands it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He called out the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/05\/democrats-legalize-third-trimester-abortions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women\u2019s Health Protection Act<\/a>, which eliminate bans on third trimester and partial-birth abortions, restrictions on sex-selective abortions, and ultrasound requirements. All Senate Democrats except <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/11\/joe-manchin-republicans-block-womens-health-protection-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Manchin<\/a> of West Virginia voted in favor of the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Your comments are absurd&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}