2003-2004 US House of Representatives WV Roll Call Voting Scores

(X = Pro-Life Vote; O = Pro-Abortion Vote)

1-2. Human cloning ban: Passed: 241-155.(vote 1)  This bill would prohibit all human cloning and is supported by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).   (vote 2) A hostile substitute amendment was offered that would allow the cloning of human embryos as long as they were killed for medical research.  (Roll Call No. 39 & 37 - 2/27/03)

3.  Abortion in military medical facilities: Failed: 201-227.  Current law prohibits the use of U.S. military facilities for abortion, except to save the life of the mother, or in cases of rape or incest. An amendment was offered to repeal this ban. NRLC opposed the amendment. (Roll Call No. 215 - 5/22/03)

4-5. Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act: Passed: 282-139 (vote 4) The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act would place a national ban on the abortion method in which a living baby is partly delivered alive outside the mother's body before being killed. NRLC supported the bill. (vote 5) A hostile motion to gut the bill failed: 165-256. (Roll Call No. 242 & 241 - 6/4/03)

6. Coercive Abortion/United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):  Passed: 216-211.  The vote was to kill an amendment that would drastically weaken the "Kemp-Kasten Anti-Coercion Law," an 18 year old law, that prohibits U.S. funding of any organization that "supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization." The NRLC supported killing this amendment.  (Roll Call No. 362 - 7/15/03)

7.  Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act - final passage: Passed: 281-142. The vote was on final passage of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.  See vote 4. (Roll Call No. 530 - 10/2/03)

8.  Medicare Modernization Act: Passed: 220-215. Government-imposed denial of medical treatment necessary to save life is a form of involuntary euthanasia. Because Medicare is mandatory health insurance for older Americans, the government must not limit the ability of senior citizens to use their own money, if they wish, to get unrationed insurance for life-saving medical treatment under Medicare. The final version of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act  empowers older Americans to avoid involuntary denial of life-saving treatment by giving them this option, both for the "core" Medicare benefit that includes life-saving medical treatment and the new prescription drug benefit. Most critically, it provides that Medicare bureaucrats cannot impose rationing-causing price controls. Therefore, the NRLC supported passage of the bill. (Roll Call No. 669 - 11/22/03).

9-10.  Unborn Victims of Violence: Passed 254-163.  (vote 9) The bill would allow federal prosecutors to bring charges on behalf of a "child in utero" when he or she is a victim of a violent federal or military crime.  NRLC supported passage of the bill.  (vote 10)  A hostile substitute amendment which would have written into federal law that there is only one victim in such crimes -- the mother, failed 186-229.  NRLC opposed the amendment.  (Roll Call No. 31 & 30 - 2/26/04)

11.  Abortion in military medical facilities: Failed: 202-221. See vote 3. (Roll Call No. 197 - 5/19/04)