How They Voted
Tracking elected officials votes on
pro-life and pro-family bills.
“The teaching is clear. Abortion and support for abortion are wrong. No informed Catholic can claim that either action is free of moral implications, and certainly no one should be led to believe, because of someone else's voting record, that this teaching about abortion is uncertain.” Archbishop of Washington Donald W.Wuerl - May 5, 2008
Most Recent Votes
from House and Senate
- Pence Amendment to DeFund Planned Parenthood Fails 84 Catholic Members of Congress Oppose the Pence Amendment - Pence amendment to eliminate millions of dollars in federal funds for Planned Parenthood failed 247-183. The amendment was attached to an appropriations bill that funds the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS).
- Wicker Amendment: Funding of the United Nations Population Fund Prohibits funding appropriated for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) from being used by organizations which support coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization. Fifteen Catholic Senators fail to protect the life of the unborn.
- Funding of overseas pro-abortion groups ("Mexico City Policy") (01/28/2009, Roll Call No. 19)
Senator Mel Martinez (R-Fl.) offered an amendment to an unrelated bill (H.R. 2), to deny U.S. "population assistance" or "family planning" funds to nongovernmental organization that "performs or actively promotes abortion as a method of birth control" overseas. This amendment, if enacted, would have restored the pro-life "Mexico City Policy," which was applied by President George W. Bush from 2001-2008, but overturned by President Barack Obama on January 23, 2009. NRTL
- Health coverage for "unborn child" (SCHIP) (01/29/2009, Roll Call No. 26)
The State Children's Health Insurance (SCHIP) program is a federal program that provides funds to states primarily to provide health services to children of low-income families. Under a regulation issued by the Bush Administration in 2002, states have the option of covering unborn children under the program, a policy known as the "unborn child rule." However, since this is an administrative rule, it could be changed by a different administration. Therefore, during consideration of legislation to reauthorize and expand the SCHIP program (H.R. 2), Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) offered an NRLC-backed amendment to codify the "unborn child rule." NRTL
- War Supplemental Appropriations Bill
Senators Vote to Include discounts to Planned Parenthood in Iraq Funding Bill
- 17 Catholic Senators Vote Against Pro-Life Amendments
- HR 3043 Pence Amendment: To prohibit use of funds in the bill for Planned Parenthood. Failed by recorded vote: 189 - 231 (Roll no. 684).
- HR 2764 Smith Amendment: To maintain the Mexico City Policy which prevents overseas funding of abortion. Amendment Failed 205 - 218
- HR2764 Pitts of Pennsylvania Amendment: An amendment sponsored by Representative Joe Pitts (R-Penn.) that would have protected designated funds for abstinence programs in combating AIDS worldwide. Failed 200 - 226
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