Ann Kirkpatrick - Reproductive Freedom for All

Formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America

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Congressional Record on Reproductive Freedom

House Democrat

Ann Kirkpatrick

Arizona AZ-02

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2022 Score

Voting Record

  • Positively impacts reproductive freedom
  • Negatively impacts reproductive freedom
Year Key Vote How They Voted
yea

Vote for/in favor of

nay

Vote against

Abstained, absent, ineligible, present, resigned or deceased

L

Leader switched vote to preserve right to file a motion to reconsider

S

The speaker exercised their discretion not to vote

Their Vote Impact
2022
Right to Contraception Act

Final passage. A bill to protect both an individual’s right to use contraception and a health care provider’s right to provide contraceptives and related counseling. A pro-choice vote was in favor of the bill.

yea
2022
Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act

Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act, H.R.8297. Final Passage. A bill to protect the rights of people who are blocked from accessing care in their state to travel to seek abortion care. A pro-choice vote was in favor of the bill.

yea
2022
Women’s Health Protection Act: Motion to End Debate

Women’s Health Protection Act, H.R.8296. A bill to protect the federal right to abortion and block the barrage of state bans and restrictions on abortion intended to impede or outright deny access. A pro-choice vote was in favor of the bill.

yea
2021
Veterans’ Access to Contraception

Veterans’ Access to Contraception. Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act, H.R.239. Final Passage. A bill to eliminate cost-sharing for veterans who access contraception through the Department of Veterans Affairs.

yea
2021
Women’s Health Protection Act H.R.3755

Women’s Health Protection Act, H.R.3755. Final Passage. A bill to protect the federal right to abortion and block the barrage of state bans and restrictions on abortion intended to impede or outright deny access. A vote for reproductive freedom was in support of the bill.

yea
2021
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

A bill to eliminate pregnancy discrimination and promote health and economic security by requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to working people for limitations arising out of pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions. Final Passage.

yea
2021
DC Statehood

Final Passage. A bill to admit Washington, DC as the 51st state.

yea
2021
Equality Under the Constitution

A joint resolution to eliminate the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S Constitution, H.J.Res.17. Final passage.

yea
2020
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

A bill to eliminate pregnancy discrimination and promote health and economic security by requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to working people for limitations arising out of pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions.

yea
2020
Refusal to Comply: Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

Motion to recommit the bill with instructions to add an exemption that would allow religious employers to deny reasonable accommodations to pregnant working people.

nay
2020
Condemning Forced Sterilization

A resolution condemning unwanted, unnecessary medical procedures on individuals without their full, informed consent. This measure condemns the heinous acts of forced sterilization of immigrant women in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody.

yea
2020
DC Statehood

A bill to admit Washington, D.C. as the 51st state.

2020
Equality Under the Constitution

A joint resolution to eliminate the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S Constitution, H.J.Res.79.

2019
Speier Family Planning Education in the Military Amendment

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, H.R.2500. Speier (D-CA) amendment to standardize family planning education programs across military service branches and provide access to copay-free birth control and emergency contraception.

*Final tally may include representatives of Washington D.C. and U.S. territories, whose votes are not dispositive of the final outcome, per House rules.

yea
2019
Enforcing the Refusal of Care Rule

Cole (R-OK) amendment to strike a provision in the appropriations bill that would have blocked the implementation and enforcement of the Trump administration's anti-choice rule that allows health care providers and others involved in patient care to put their personal beliefs above patients' health and safety. *Final tally may include representatives of Washington D.C. and U.S. territories, whose votes are not dispositive of the final outcome, per House rules.

nay
2019
Enforcing the “Domestic Gag Rule”

Roby (R-AL) amendment to strike a provision from the appropriations bill that would block the so-called "domestic gag rule" that prevents patients in the Title X program from accessing the full spectrum of care. *Final tally may include representatives of Washington D.C. and U.S. territories, whose votes are not dispositive of the final outcome, per House rules.

nay
2019
Attack on International Family Planning

Lesko (R-AZ) amendment to cut critical international family planning funding from the appropriations package.

*Final tally may include representatives of Washington D.C. and U.S. territories, whose votes are not dispositive of the final outcome, per House rules.

nay
2019
Biomedical Research

Pocan (D-WI) amendment to block the Trump administration's expanded restrictions on biomedical research using embryonic and fetal tissue. *Final tally may include representatives of Washington D.C. and U.S. territories, whose votes are not dispositive of the final outcome, per House rules.

yea
2016
Attack on Planned Parenthood: Special “Investigation” Committee Funding

H.Res.933. Final Passage. A resolution to allocate $800,000 in back-funding to the special committee investigating fetal-tissue donation and abortion practice.

2016
Anti-Choice Refusal: Conscience Protection Act

S.304. Final passage. The bill would expand the Federal Refusal Clause by allowing individuals and healthcare companies to refuse to participate in, facilitate, or make arrangements for abortion services. It would also let individuals and organizations bring lawsuits for actual or threatened violations.

nay
2016
Anti-Choice Refusal: D.C. Reproductive-Health Non-Discrimination Law

Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, H.R.5485. Palmer (R-AL) amendment to block a D.C. law that prohibits employers from taking adverse action against employees based on their reproductive-health decisions.

nay
2016
Federal Employees’ Health Insurance

Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, H.R.5485. Grayson (D-FL) amendment to strike the current-law provision that prohibits federal employees and their dependents from choosing a health-insurance plan with abortion coverage through the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) program.

yea
2016
Restriction on Contraception: Zika Response

Zika Response and Preparedness Act, H.R.2577. On agreeing to the conference report to accompany H.R.2577. Final passage. The conference report restricts access to contraception by excluding family-planning providers from Zika response funds.

nay
2016
Anti-Choice Refusal: Taxpayer-Funded Discrimination

Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, H.R.5055. Byrne (R-AL) amendment to add a sweeping refusal provision that would allow employers to discriminate against women and LGBT workers.

nay
2016
Attack on Planned Parenthood: Veto Override

To provide for reconciliation on the budget for fiscal year 2016, H.R.3762. Veto override. Vote to override President Obama’s January 8 veto of a bill that would disqualify Planned Parenthood from participating in federal health-care programs for one year.

(Some anti-choice lawmakers cast what appear to be pro-choice votes; most observers recognize that those votes were cast for reasons unrelated to reproductive health.) A two-thirds majority of those present and voting (285 votes needed to sustain the president’s veto in this case) of both houses is required to override a veto.

nay
2016
Attack on Planned Parenthood: One-Year Funding Ban

To provide for reconciliation on the budget for fiscal year 2016, H.R.3762. Final passage. The bill would disqualify Planned Parenthood from participating in federal healthcare programs for one year.

(Some anti-choice lawmakers cast what appear to be pro-choice votes; most observers recognize that those votes were cast for reasons unrelated to reproductive health.)

nay