{"id":194595,"date":"2019-01-17T17:59:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T23:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=194595"},"modified":"2019-01-18T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T21:38:11","slug":"senate-fails-pass-taxpayer-funding-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/senate-fails-pass-taxpayer-funding-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate fails to pass &#8216;symbolic&#8217; No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Today, the Senate, by a final vote of 48-47, failed to pass the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/breaking-bill-to-permanently-ban-taxpayer-abortion-funding-fails-senate-vot\">reported by Life Site News<\/a>, the bill, brought by Senator Roger Whicker (R-Miss.), would have &#8220;impose[d] a permanent, comprehensive ban on abortion funding, block[ed] tax dollars from financing abortions through Obamacare insurance plans, and enhance[d] disclosure requirements for plans on the exchange that cover abortion.&#8221; Unsurprisingly, GOP Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine voted against the Act. Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania voted in favor; Republican Senators Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Lamar Alexander, Richard Burr, and Mike Crapo either did not vote or were not present. Despite the bill&#8217;s failure to garner enough votes to pass, Sen. Whicker said it served the purpose of getting his colleagues on record as to where they stand:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">At the end of today\u2019s vote, every single American will know where their Senator stands on the issue of taxpayer funding for abortion. Tax dollars should never be used to fund a procedure so many find reprehensible. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ProLife?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ProLife<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WhyWeMarch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WhyWeMarch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Roger Wicker (@SenatorWicker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorWicker\/status\/1086013841333514241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The majority of Americans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kofc.org\/en\/news\/polls.html#\/\">do <em>not<\/em> agree with taxpayer funding of abortion<\/a>. Yet, certain GOP senators and nearly all Democrat senators continue to vote in favor of forcing Americans to pay to fund the deaths of children in the womb.<\/p>\n<p>Some Democrat Senators predictably characterized Whicker&#8217;s bill with the usual hyperbole. Sen. Kirsten Gillbrand said the bill was &#8220;attacking women,&#8221; while Sen. Richard Blumenthal characterized it as a &#8220;vote to block millions of American women from their constitutional right to access an abortion.&#8221; Neither elaborated on how attempting to keep taxpayers from being forced to fund the killing of preborn children does either of these things.<\/p>\n<p>As the House of Representatives is currently under the control of Democrats where no pro-life bills are likely to survive, the vote today was largely, as Life Site News&#8217; Calvin Freiburger put it, &#8220;symbolic,&#8221; held just &#8220;one day before pro-lifers gather in the nation\u2019s capital for the March for Life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roll Call of those voting in favor of forcing taxpayers to fund abortions are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Doug Jones, (D-Ala.)<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)<\/p>\n<p>Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.)<\/p>\n<p>Dianne Feinstein, (D-Calif.)<\/p>\n<p>Kamala Harris (D-Calif.)<\/p>\n<p>Michael Bennet (D-Colo.)<\/p>\n<p>Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Murphy (D-Conn.)<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Carper (D-Del.)<\/p>\n<p>Chris Coons (D-Del.)<\/p>\n<p>Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii)<\/p>\n<p>Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii)<\/p>\n<p>Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.)<\/p>\n<p>Richard Durbin (D-Ill.)<\/p>\n<p>Susan Collins (R-Maine)<\/p>\n<p>Angus King (I-Maine)<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.)<\/p>\n<p>Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)<\/p>\n<p>Ed Markey (D-Mass.)<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)<\/p>\n<p>Gary Peters (D-Mich.)<\/p>\n<p>Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)<\/p>\n<p>Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)<\/p>\n<p>Tina Smith (D-Minn.)<\/p>\n<p>Jon Tester (D-Mont.)<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-Nev.)<\/p>\n<p>Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.)<\/p>\n<p>Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.)<\/p>\n<p>Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.)<\/p>\n<p>Cory Booker (D-N.J.)<\/p>\n<p>Bob Menendez (D-N.J.)<\/p>\n<p>Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.)<\/p>\n<p>Tom Udall (D-N.M.)<\/p>\n<p>Kristen Gillibrand (D-N.Y.)<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)<\/p>\n<p>Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.)<\/p>\n<p>Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)<\/p>\n<p>John Reed (D-R.I.)<\/p>\n<p>Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.)<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Kaine (D-Va.)<\/p>\n<p>Mark Warner (D-Va.)<\/p>\n<p>Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.)<\/p>\n<p>Patty Murray (D-Wash.)<\/p>\n<p>Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Senate, by a final vote of 48-47, failed to pass the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act. As reported by Life Site News, the bill, brought by Senator Roger Whicker (R-Miss.), would have &#8220;impose[d] a permanent, comprehensive ban on abortion funding, block[ed] tax dollars from financing abortions through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":81688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Senate fails to pass &#039;symbolic&#039; No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Despite the bill&#039;s failure to get enough votes to pass, Sen. 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