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Tracking elected officials votes on
pro-life and pro-family bills.

 

Two Senate Votes to Protect Pregnant Women and Teens Rejected

 

17 Catholic Senators Vote Against Pro-Life Amendments

Last week the Senate rejected an amendment that would have provided funds to enforce preventing the transporting of minors over state lines to obtain abortions without parental notification and an amendment to provide funding to poor pregnant women and their unborn children.

Obama and Clinton Join Senate Against Helping Pregnant Women, McCain Disagrees

Pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton joined a majority of the Senate Thursday night in rejecting an amendment that would offer financial support to poor pregnant women and their unborn children. Their votes contrasted with likely GOP presidential nominee John McCain.

The two candidates voted against a measure by Sen. Wayne Allard of Colorado that would have included pregnant women and their unborn children in the SCHIP program.

Pro-life groups strongly supported the amendment because it would help women who may otherwise have an abortion because of financial worries about affording a baby.

The vote provided another clear contrast between Obama and Clinton, who support unlimited abortions funded with taxpayer dollars, and McCain, who opposes abortion and has called for reversing Roe v. Wade. LifeNews

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Join Senate Against Parental Involvement on Abortion

Led by votes from pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the Senate rejected a measure on Thursday night that would have promoted parental involvement when it comes to a minor teenager girl who is considering an abortion.

The Senate voted on an amendment from Sen. John Ensign of Nevada authorizing funds for the federal government to enforce the prevention of taking teens to another state for a secret abortion.

Congress has previously considered the Child Custody Protection Act, a bill to make sure someone can't take a girl to another state for an abortion that violates the parental consent or notification laws of her home state.

Because the Senate's pro-abortion leadership won't take up the bill, Ensign structured a budgetary amendment to essentially accomplish the same purpose as the legislation and pro-life groups considered the vote the same as a vote on the bill.

However, the Senate defeated the amendment on a 49-49 vote thanks to votes against it from both Obama and Clinton. LifeNews

17 Catholic Senators Vote Against Pro-Life Amendments

Alaska: Murkowski (R-AK)
rejected Allard only 		 
Colorado: Salazar (D-CO)  
Connecticut: Dodd (D-CT)  
Delaware: Biden (D-DE)  
Illinois: Durbin (D-IL)  
Iowa: Harkin (D-IA)  
Louisiana: Landrieu (D-LA)
rejected Allard only

 
Maine: Collins (R-ME)  
Maryland: Mikulski (D-MD)  
Massachusetts: Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA)
Missouri: McCaskill (D-MO)  
New Jersey: Menendez (D-NJ)  
Rhode Island: Reed (D-RI)  
Vermont: Leahy (D-VT)  
Washington: Cantwell (D-WA) Murray (D-WA)