Jim Bridenstine - Reproductive Freedom for All

Formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America

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Congressional Record on Reproductive Freedom

House Republican

Jim Bridenstine

Oklahoma OK-01

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2018 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
2018
Granting Legal Rights to a Pregnancy (“Personhood”)

The Retirement, Savings, and Other Tax Relief Act, H.R.88. Final Passage. A bill to amend the tax code which would grant separate legal rights to a pregnancy, laying the legal groundwork to ban abortion outright.

(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 rights.)

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2018
Granting Legal Rights to a Pregnancy (“Personhood”)

Family Savings Act of 2018, H.R.6757. Final Passage. A bill to amend the tax code which would grant separate legal rights to a pregnancy, laying the legal groundwork to ban abortion outright.

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2018
Interference in Abortion Practice

Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, H.R.4712. Final Passage. Blackburn (R-TN) bill to interfere with the medical practice of abortion care under the threat of severe penalties.

 		yea
2017
Attack on the ACA – House Final Passage

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, H.R.1. On agreeing to the conference report as amended by the Senate. Final passage. The conference report overhauls the tax system and eliminates the Affordable Care Act’s requirement for individuals to purchase health insurance. (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.)

 		yea
2017
Granting Legal Rights to a Pregnancy (“Personhood”)

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, H.R.1. Final Passage. A bill to overhaul the tax system which grants separate legal rights to a pregnancy, laying the legal groundwork to ban abortion outright. (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.) Paul Ryan cast a Speaker vote.

 		yea
2017
20-Week Abortion Ban

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, H.R.36. Final Passage. Franks (R-AZ) bill to ban abortion after 20 weeks nationwide.

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2017
20-Week Abortion Ban: Add Health Exception

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, H.R.36. Motion to recommit the bill with instructions to add a health exception.

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2017
Attack on Family-Planning Funding, Planned Parenthood, and Abortion Coverage

Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, H.R.3354 (omnibus appropriations bill). Final Passage.

Appropriations bill that defunds Planned Parenthood, eliminates funding entirely for critical family-planning services through Title X and international programs, and includes anti-choice policy riders such as restrictions on abortion care for women who obtain their healthcare coverage through the federal government, prohibitions on abortion coverage in the private market, a broad new refusal law, a ban on federal funding for fetal-tissue research, and codification of the global gag rule.

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2017
Anti-Choice Refusal: D.C. Reproductive-Health Non-Discrimination Law

Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, H.R.3354 (omnibus appropriations bill). Palmer amendment to block a D.C. law that prohibits employers from taking adverse action against employees based on their reproductive-health decisions.

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2017
ACA Repeal and Attack on Planned Parenthood – Final Passage

American Health Care Act, H.R.1628. Final passage. A bill to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, restrict private insurance coverage of abortion care, and 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.)

 		yea
2017
Rescind Title X Protections – House Final Passage

A resolution to express congressional disapproval of the final rule relating to compliance with Title X requirements, H.J.Res.43. Final Passage. This measure would reverse the Obama administration rule prohibiting discrimination against healthcare providers in the Title X program.

 		yea
2017
No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act

No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, H.R.7. Final Passage. Smith (R-NJ) bill to effectively ban abortion coverage in the state health-insurance exchanges, penalize small businesses that purchase private health plans that include abortion coverage, mandate that health plans make biased, one-sided "disclosures" of abortion coverage, and reiterate and expand bans on public-insurance coverage of abortion.

 		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.

 		yea
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.

 		yea
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.

 		yea
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.

nay
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.

yea
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.

 		yea
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.

 		yea
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.)

 		yea

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