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Pro-choice scores for 2008 are based on the following votes.
Senate Votes
- Hyde Amendment. Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2007, S.1200. Vitter (R-LA) amendment to "recodify" the Hyde amendment for all Indian Health Service (IHS) clinics. The Hyde amendment already prohibits publicly funded abortion care in virtually every federal health program, including at IHS centers, in all cases except rape, incest, or life endangerment. The restriction has applied to all IHS clinics since 1988, so recodifying it is superfluous and unnecessary. Passed 52-42; a pro-choice vote (+) was against the amendment (2/26/08).
- Child Custody Protection Act. FY’09 budget resolution, S.Con.Res.70. Ensign (R-NV) amendment to allocate funds to enforce the controversial Child Custody Protection Act (CCPA)—legislation that has not even been passed into law. CCPA would make it a federal crime for anyone other than a parent to accompany a minor to an out-of-state provider for abortion services if the young woman’s home state has a strict parental-involvement mandate. Rejected 49-49; a pro-choice vote (+) was against the amendment (3/13/08).
- "Unborn Child" Regulation. FY’09 budget resolution, S.Con.Res.70. Allard (R-CO) amendment to codify the Bush administration’s "unborn child" regulation that allows states to make an embryo or fetus—but not a pregnant woman—eligible for health-care coverage. The amendment was an effort to erode further the legal framework for abortion rights by making an embryo, from the moment of conception, a separate beneficiary of government programs. Rejected 46-52; a pro-choice vote (+) was against the amendment (3/14/08).
House Votes
There were no scored House votes in 2008. |
