Scott Taylor - Reproductive Freedom for All

Formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America

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Congressional Record on Reproductive Freedom

House Republican

Scott Taylor

Virginia VA-02

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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.)

yea
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.

yea
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.

yea
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.

nay
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.

yea
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.

yea
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