Mike Johnson Tells March for Life Attendees His Teen Parents Were Told to Abort Him, Is ‘Eternally Grateful’ They Refused

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday shared with attendees the story of a life that almost was not — his own.

Johnson spoke Friday at the annual March for Life, held around the date of the since-overturned Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that claimed a legal right to abortion.

“I was the product of an unplanned teen pregnancy exactly one year before Roe, in January of 1972, and a lot of people tried to convince my very young parents that they should just ‘take care of that problem,’ but I am eternally grateful that they allowed me the chance at life,” Johnson said in a video posted to X.

Mike Johnson: “I was the product of an unplanned teen pregnancy exactly one year