2023-2024 FEDERAL LegislatiON
118th Congress (2023-2024)
1. SUPPORTED THE LIFE AT CONCEPTION ACT:
The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June 2022 remanded the abortion issue back to the state legislatures and the Congress to be democratically addressed by the people’s representatives. Accordingly, the 118th U.S. Congress introduced legislation that protects the preborn child as a legal person. Offering a national solution to the atrocity of abortion, the legislation applied 14th Amendment protections to all human beings from conception.
2023 H.R. (House Resolution) 431, the Life at Conception Act, would have implemented equal protection under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution for the right to life of each born and preborn human person. Specifically, H.R. 431 declared that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual comes into being.
H.R 431 died in the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2. SUPPORTED THE PHARMACIST CONSCIENCE PROTECTION ACT:
2023 H.R. (House Resolution) 279, the Pharmacist Conscience Protection Act, would have prohibited the federal government and federally-funded entities from discriminating or otherwise taking adverse action against a pharmacist, pharmacy owner, or pharmacy technician who declines to store, fill prescriptions for, or make referrals for drugs that cause abortions [or that the individual provider believes in good faith cause abortions]. Individuals or the Department of Justice would have been able to bring civil actions for violations of this bill.
H.R. 279 died in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health.
3. SUPPORTED THE PROTECTING LIFE AND INTEGRITY IN RESEARCH ACT:
2023 S. 3713 prohibits the federal government from conducting, funding, approving, or supporting any research involving human fetal tissue that is obtained from an induced abortion and prohibits the solicitation or knowing acquisition, receipt, or acceptance of a donation of such tissue.
4. OPPOSED THE WOMEN’S HEALTH PROTECTION ACT:
2023 H.R. (House Resolution) 12 effectively codifies a national right to abortion by outlawing virtually all state abortion restrictions, including informed consent/waiting period laws, requiring abortion clinics to meet the same standards as surgical centers, requiring abortion providers have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, and banning telemedicine chemical abortions.