Senate Roll Call 70, 105th Congress · May 15, 1997

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the performance of an abortion where the fetus is determined to be viable. — (SENATE REJECTED DASCHLE AMENDMENT NO. 289, IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

36 yea · 64 nayAmendment Rejected

Democrat33 yea · 12 nay

Republican2 yea · 51 nay

Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1122 ↗

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1997

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

Abortion & ContraceptionA yea counts toward “Expand access”
model(0.85): Adopting a substitute permitting pre-viability abortions and health exceptions protects access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) An amendment setting policy conditions on abortion does not directly align with criminal justice reform.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (36)

Nay (64)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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