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Congressional Record on Reproductive Freedom

House Republican

Renee Ellmers

North Carolina NC-02

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2016 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
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.

—
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