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A growing number of U.S. congressional Democrats pushed back Friday against pressure to endorse House Speaker Mike Johnson's invitation for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress—even as his government stands accused of genocide in a World Court case and he faces the prospect of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for alleged crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Opposition to Johnson's (R-La.) invitation—which the speaker formally announced Thursday—has been mounting following news that ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan applied for warrants to arrest Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and three Hamas leaders for alleged crimes committed on and after October 7 and Friday's International Court of Justice order for Israel to immediately halt its assault on Rafah.

CNN's Brianna Keilar put Louisiana state Sen. Thomas Pressly on the defensive Friday during an interview in which she grilled him about his state's controversial, first-in-the-nation bill that's likely to criminalize the possession of mifepristone and misoprostol, two medications commonly used for nonsurgical abortions, without a prescription for a non-abortion purpose.

Louisiana already has a total ban on abortion, and the medication has a variety of other important uses beyond abortion — from treating ulcers to assisting women in labor. Pressly, who introduced the legislation that passed the Senate and is expected to be signed by the governor, kept invoking the case of his sister, whose abusive ex-husband went to prison for repeatedly spiking her drinks with the medications to try to end her pregnancy without her consent.