Pro-Choice Voter Guide: California District 49

Rep. Darrell Issa

Rep. Darrell Issa (R) is anti-choice. He is the incumbent.

• Rep. Issa earned a 0-percent score in NARAL Pro-Choice America's 2011 Congressional Record on Choice.
• Voted twice to block Planned Parenthood from receiving any federal funds, which would have denied millions of Americans access to contraception, cancer screenings, and other basic medical care.
• Voted for H.R.3, a bill that would ban abortion coverage in state health-insurance exchanges; impose tax penalties on small businesses and many individuals who purchase private health plans that include abortion coverage; and make permanent several restrictions that block many women from accessing abortion care.
• Voted to allow hospitals to refuse to provide emergency abortion care to women who could die without it.
• Rep. Issa is the chair of the committee that refused to allow Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke to testify in support of insurance coverage of birth control.