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Senate Roll Call 402, 108th Congress · October 21, 2003

A bill to prohibit the procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion.

Question before the chamber: On the Conference Report

64 yea · 34 nayConference Report Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat18 yea · 29 nay
Republican46 yea · 3 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 3 ↗

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003

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 “Restrict access”

    model(0.95): Banning partial-birth abortion restricts access to abortion procedures.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortion

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”

    model(0.90): Criminalizing a medical procedure establishes punitive legal prohibitions.

    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 (64)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (2)

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