'Ludicrous': Planned Parenthood CEO blasts Idaho abortion ban as 'completely insane'

Planned Parenthood Action Fund President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson weighs in on the Supreme Court hearing arguments on the Idaho abortion case. McGill Johnson says we are going to go 'even further backwards' if President Biden is not reelected.
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#SCOTUS #supremecourt #abortionrights

[@MF-qf7bs]

Lawyers, courts, RELIGION, have NO RIGHT TO INTERFERE WITH MEDICAL DECISIONS. Beginning, middle, and end of story.

[@tja3495]

💯 🎯

[@spankyssurprise1361]

Except that the government regulates the medical industry a 1000 ways to sunday.

[@donothingMTIAMG]

​@@tja3495 Goofball We have lots of laws-regulations on the medical profession. Grow up! 🤗

[@spankyssurprise1361]

The government has been regulating the medical industry for some time now.

[@lindascott3973]

That whooshing sound is the point going over your head.​@donothingMTIAMG

[@claudiomaldonado8194]

Trump did it , and he is proud of himself.

[@CristopherMattison-ro2pw]

What's it like being a stupid demorat voter?

[@rebeccawiles3219]

Do no harm right? Isn’t that the oath doctors take so if they don’t prevent a woman from getting some serious complication that’s doing harm and a violation of every doctors oath.

[@Dingleberry777]

Dr's also have an oath to protect the life of that baby.

[@barryhahn6419]

Bacteria is a sign of life according to NASA but a heartbeat on earth isn't a sign of life?

[@danesullivan5151]

​@@barryhahn6419its almost like the definition of life has to be so broad as to encompass anything not inorganic. Life the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death. Which by that definition cancer is alive too.

[@lindascott3973]

​@Dingleberry777 except it's not a baby. Stop trying to impose your views on other people.😊

[@Dingleberry777]

@@lindascott3973 It's a baby Linda... you know it's a baby.

[@sandywhite1550]

Why give birth to an unwanted child. If you become pregnant and don’t want the child or can’t care for the child why give birth to this child. Is the government going to support this unwanted child ? Pregnancy has medical risks. Why put your body at risk if the child is unwanted.

[@Point_Particle]

Because wealthy Republicans need low-wage laborers. They've got multiple yachts to pay off.

[@Kwk16534]

Exactly thank you for saying it

[@cultureal9544]

Oh Scotus got Medical degrees now ... which hospitals did they intern at? AG Garland's very first announcement on podium was to protect all EMERGENCY ABORTION

[@bakersdirtydozen]

Holy Crap! The GOP might turn Idaho into a swing state.

[@Point_Particle]

Republicans: "send abortion rights to the states!" Republican states: "full ban on abortion!" Voters in every state ballot initiative: "keep abortion legal!" Do Republicans not know how to read the room?

[@donothingMTIAMG]

Cry little tiger. 🤣

[@danesullivan5151]

@@donothingMTIAMG suckle that boot brown shirt

[@Point_Particle]

@@donothingMTIAMG Why would I cry? American citizens are literally voting against Republican policies, every time Republicans put them on a ballot for people to actually have a say. Republicans seem to not be able to take a hint, when the American people tell them, time after time, they don't like Republican policies. Republicans just keep trying, bless their hearts. I commend them for not quitting, but at some point, I assume they'd get tired of losing.

[@ChrisJones-wg1iy]

@@donothingMTIAMG are you old enough to be up this late?

[@donothingMTIAMG]

@@ChrisJones-wg1iy You feel smart in your double wide? 🤣

[@dellaniblett5532]

Idaho, shameful!!! Pro-life applies to the mother or women period.

[@crafty-lady6853]

VOTE BLUE STRAIGHT UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT IN ROEVEMBER 2024.

[@germainjodoin415]

This is a trump kangaroo court....and we all know. I am DISCUSTED in the roos that sit in these chairs...as we can only sit and watch to see how much damage to the court system of the United States....😂😂😂 glad I'm Canadian and still have freedoms that we fought for.

[@Viviorkogaming]

Someone who benefits financially thinks it’s wrong. No bias there. Shocker

[@skycloud7637]

BIDEN/HARRIS 2024!💙💙💙

[@Destiny-bt7oi]

Thanks for cutting off the promo for the app at the end.

[@studlydoright1008]

A true Christian knows that God will be the Judge in the end, not the corrupt Evangalist Run Court seeking powere and control.

[@viola147]

Come on, Supreme's ! Do we really want this chaos in 2024 ! We have choices now ! It's not just as simple as having a baby or not having a baby ! Doctors need to do their jobs without judges interfering! States who choose to go backward will eventually lose their residents ! Wake up ! People will move ! Our country will look foolish!! Do we want dentists to go back to pliers and bourbon too ????????😮

[@georgelayton6641]

The man-boy-men from Idaho will tell you where your place is woman.

[@sildan1988]

Vote blue 💙 and let's show republicans that we have control our bodies.

[@kimleverette31]

OUTSTANDING IDAHO SUPREME COURT TO YOUR CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT !!!! BRAVO 🇧🇻🇺🇲🍾🥳✝️🔙

[@rosemaryporter5771]

Criminalizing motherhood before a girl or woman might become pregnant is bad law... Politicians are not medical authority and should be arrested for impersonation and medical malpractice... They dont own or control women like a piece of property or livestock...

[@studlydoright1008]

This is about Powere and control over women not Life if this was about life Guns would be illegal.

[@walterorr7446]

TRUMP 2024

[@kahanakahuna1470]

At a campaign rally in Tampa, yesterday, Biden said, "I don’t know why we’re surprised by Trump. How many times does he have to prove we can't be trusted?" Freudian slip..

[@crafty-lady6853]

Maybe you have trouble listening and he actually said HE.

[@kahanakahuna1470]

@@crafty-lady6853 Nope, "we"

[@kahanakahuna1470]

@@crafty-lady6853 Get your hearing tested. He clearly (or, a clear as he can) said, "we"

[@kahanakahuna1470]

@@crafty-lady6853 Nope, it's your hearing that's got the deficit.

[@Viviorkogaming]

1:11 I’m here because of a loving mother. We all are.

[@DarklyIlluminati]

Planned Parenthood would lose a lot of money because of this.

[@ChrisJones-wg1iy]

Planned Parenthood is a charity and ranks in the 96%. Also, they spend more on birth control than abortions. So they would actually have more money if they couldn’t do abortion procedures. 🤔

[@ladyofbast250]

That's not very likely considering the majority of services offered by planned parenthood are related to contraception and STI tests/treatments.

[@DarklyIlluminati]

@@ladyofbast250 and more

[@ladyofbast250]

@@DarklyIlluminati and more what?

[@buddymckimmey3545]

Baby part is a great business

[@wtfisthishandlebullshit]

It's not a business. You'll have to close up shop.

[@donothingMTIAMG]

CONGRATULATIONS MISSOURI ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD! 🇺🇸❤️U

[@ladyofbast250]

Why wouldn't you want people to have low-cost access to contraception and STI tests?

[@roejogan7770]

Of course the CEO is upset about her profits! What a greedy capitalist!

[@maryseflore7028]

Still, her points are completely valid and NEED to be considered.

[@roejogan7770]

@@maryseflore7028 She’s only concerned with profits.

[@wtfisthishandlebullshit]

​@@roejogan7770 There's no profit in abortion.

[@michaelbriganti]

@@wtfisthishandlebullshit PEPSI AND PLANNED PARENTHOOD: Hold my beer.

[@wtfisthishandlebullshit]

​@@michaelbriganti There's no profit in abortion. Still.

[@davidrhinehart7764]

Just think. If planned parenthood would have attained it's original goal, johnson and a lot of her ancestors wouldn't be here.

[@seymourbutts4654]

Most of our founders owned slaves. Conservatives don't seem to mind that.

[@Dingleberry777]

So True. Liberals are incredibly uneducated about so many things but none more so than the founder of P.P. and her view of what needs to be done with poc. 😥

[@Haywood118]

I wonder what Jesus Christ would do.

[@Mike_Jones281]

Jesus would remain irrelevant, as there is no compelling evidence that Jesus was the son of a god or had any divine powers.

[@sandywhite1550]

Jesus is dead.

[@Fazzel]

If the woman was gravely ill, He would probably wave a hand and make the fetus disappear.

[@Haywood118]

Just read the Bible and tell me that again.

[@Mike_Jones281]

I have read the Bible multiple times. Jesus's desires are not relevant to the discussion at hand. In fact, the entire book is irrelevant, as it is nothing more than a document of claims that lack compelling evidence to support them.

[@spankyssurprise1361]

It's a states rights issue...let idaho deal with their issues.

[@allsaltdownhere]

States don't have rights.

[@spankyssurprise1361]

@@allsaltdownhere Huh? And here I thought the 10th amendment meant something.

[@danesullivan5151]

​@@spankyssurprise1361i hope they are enjoying the doctor wasteland they are currently in.

[@michaelbriganti]

Bingo!!!

[@geofflepper3207]

Every time far right extremists talk about states rights they mean that state governments that represent the interests of the American Taliban should be allowed to deny basic rights to a group of citizens. Obviously the idea that citizens should have their basic rights respected only in some states but not in others is ludicrous, illogical and horrific.

[@winstonsmith6607]

Look at the views on abortion stories. Stick to Trump and nothing else, MSDNC.

[@seymourbutts4654]

BUT when they talk about Trump you complain about that too.

[@winstonsmith6607]

@@seymourbutts4654 I'm not complaining, I'm mocking. Like an elderly relative who tells the same story for the ten millionth time. Yeah, we know. Orange Man is bad. Orange Man smells. Orange Man lies. Orange Man is going to prison. The walls are closing in on Orange Man. yawn.

[@tja3495]

@winstonsmith6607 no one answers to you.

[@Mr.White10-65]

This woman's yearly salary is almost $700K.

[@larindanomikos]

And...

[@tja3495]

You jealous much, whitey @Mr.White10-65

[@Mr.White10-65]

@@larindanomikos Makes sense why she would be fighting for this cause and the only reason.

[@Kwk16534]

So what the average CEO makes 100 million dollars do the math tax the effing CEOs

[@waynethompson1115]

Wierd, there is an exception for risk to the mother in Idaho. Abortions are banned when a heartbeat is detected. Sounds fair to me.

[@maryseflore7028]

What happens if there's a heartbeat, but the mother's life is on the line?

[@waynethompson1115]

@@maryseflore7028 by law, the doctor can treat her. There's misinformation coming from both sides. I do research on what I'm told.

[@Fazzel]

What is magical about a heartbeat? Why not when brain activity is detected?

[@waynethompson1115]

@@Fazzel since life starts a conception, maybe it should be then.

[@Fazzel]

@@waynethompson1115 -- For me there is a difference between being alive and being an aware human being. A sponge in the sea is alive. I don't think someone becomes human until their brain functions. That is why they are allowed to take people off life support when they are brain dead after a severe injury. They are no longer considered alive even though their body is still functioning. So if end of life is when your brain no longer functions, start of life should be when your brain does start to function.

[@RocketScientist1]

You can be moral, or you can be liberal- but you can’t be both!

[@wtfisthishandlebullshit]

Your morals aren't the same as someone else's. Leave it to redhatters to try and legislate morality.

[@michaelbriganti]

Or intelligent

[@Fazzel]

What gives conservatives the right to dictate what morality is?

[@RocketScientist1]

@@Fazzel God. Know him? He gave us the laws that dictate what morality is.

[@RocketScientist1]

@@wtfisthishandlebullshit God has already legislated morality for us all.

[@buddymckimmey3545]

Close your legs Problem solved

[@suzanne9150]

KEEP YOUR ZIPPER LOCKED.....PROBLEM SOLVED. Women do not get pregnant all by themselves.

[@Not_Squirrel]

Sheesh. You forgot the rest...Men can keep it zipped & dry.

[@DannyInCanada]

"I wanted this pregnancy, but it's gone wrong. Gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia are going to make me blind. Literally blind." "Buddy McKimmey says you should have kept your legs closed. Go blind."

[@buddymckimmey3545]

@@DannyInCanada .0001 %

[@anniejuan1817]

Women can have s3x every day of the week, with men, with women, or just by themselves, and NOT get pregnant. EVERY unwanted pregnancy was created by a man not being responsible for HIS own bodily fluids. Wrap it up or zip it tight.