26 Years of Voting on Pro-Life Issues

Check how your State Senator voted:

• 1978-2003 Senate Voting Table
• 1978-2003 Senate CommitteeVoting Table

  Full Virginia Senate Votes

  	Year	Bill	Issue	Pro-Life Position	Voting Result
  1	1978	HB 502	State Funding of Abortions	NO	18-20
  2	1982	HB 541	State Funding of Abortions in Cases of Rape & Incest (signed by Governor Robb)	NO	22-17
  3	1990	SB 296	Parental Notification (amended bill which originally had been on a different subject), vote to refer bill to Education & Health Committee where it would die	NO	21-19
  4	1992	HB 1110	Parental Notification, passage of final bill (vetoed by Governor Wilder)	YES	23-17
  5	1994	HB 867	Parental Notification,vote on germaneness of substitution of parental notification wording - critical for passage (failed - Lt. Gov. Beyer cast tie breaking vote against)	YES	20-20
  6	1994	SB 610	Parental Notification, vote to weaken Gov. Allen's bill by allowing notification of other family members	NO	22-18
  7	1997	SB 1148	Parental Notification-vote to add other family members	NO	14-26
  8	1997	SB 1148	Parental Notification-vote on passage	YES	26-14
  9	1998	SB 552	Partial-Birth Abortion Ban-vote on passage	YES	33-7
  10	2001	SB 1211	Informed Consent-vote on passage	YES	24-16
  11	2003	SB 1205	Partial-Birth Infanticide-vote to accept Gov.'s amendments	NO	12-28
  12	2003	SB 1124	Parental Consent-vote to accept Gov.'s amendments	NO	11-29

  Senate Education & Health Committee

  	Year	Bill	Issue	Pro-Life Position	Voting Result
  13	1992	SB 182	Parental Notification-vote to forward bill to Senate floor (killed bill but wording later attached to another bill on Senate floor and passed; vetoed by Gov. Wilder)	YES	4-11
  14	1994	HB 1355	Parental Notification-vote to forward bill to Senate floor	YES	7-8
  15	1996	SB 25 & HB 267	Parental Notification-vote to forward bills to Senate floor (both bills killed on identical votes; wording later attached to another bill on Senate floor and passed but died in House)	YES	6-9
  16	1997	SB 1149	Partial-Birth Abortion Ban-vote to forward bill to Senate floor	YES	5-9
  17	1998	HB 1371	Informed Consent-vote to forward bill to Senate floor	YES	6-9
  18	1999	HB 2108	Informed Consent-vote to forward bill to Senate floor	YES	7-8
  19	1999	HB 749	Clinic Licensing-vote to forward bill to Senate floor	YES	4-11
  20	2000	HB 1482	Informed Consent-vote to forward bill to Senate floor	YES	7-8
  22	2002	HB 601	Parental Consent-vote to forward bill to Senate floor (failed)	YES	7-7
  23	2002	HB 563	Abortion Conscience clause-vote to kill the bill	NO	10-3
  24	2003	HB 2367	Abortion Clinic Licensing-vote to forward bill to Senate floor	YES	7-8

  Senate Courts of Justice Committee

  	Year	Bill	Issue	Pro-Life Position	Voting Result
  21	2001	HB 2403	Feticide-vote to forward bill to Senate floor	YES	6-9

  Published in VSHL Lifesaver, October 2003