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Senate Roll Call 47, 108th Congress · March 12, 2003

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

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

42 yea · 56 nayMotion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat38 yea · 8 nay
Republican2 yea · 48 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 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): Prohibiting an abortion procedure restricts access to reproductive health services.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortion

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”

    model(0.80): Banning a medical procedure under criminal penalties increases criminal liability and punitive measures.

    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 (42)

Nay (56)

Not voting or present (2)

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