Steve Watkins - Reproductive Freedom for All

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Congressional Record on Reproductive Freedom

House Republican

Steve Watkins

Kansas KS-02

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24%

2020 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
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.

 		yea
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.

 		nay
2020
DC Statehood

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

 		nay
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.

nay
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.

 		nay
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.

 		yea
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.

 		yea
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.

 		yea
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.

 		nay