Votes on Abortion-Related Issues by Congressman Dick Cheney and Congressman Al Gore during the Period that They Served Together in the U.S. House of Representatives 1979-84
(This Was Before Al Gore Flip-Flopped And Became Pro-Abortion)1

X = pro-life vote O = pro-abortion vote

Issue Date Gore Vote Cheney Vote
Hyde Amendment
(reject exceptions for
rape, incest, health) 6/27/79 X X

Hyde Amendment
(reject exceptions for
rape, incest, health) 10/9/79 X X

Hyde Amendment
(reject exceptions for
rape, incest) 10/30/79 X X

permanently ban federal funding
of abortion except life-of-mother,
and allow states to refuse to
fund Medicaid
abortions 12/11/79 X X

exclude abortion from
federal employees' health
plans (complete ban) 8/20/80 X X

prohibit all funding of abortion
by D.C. city government 9/3/80 X X

exclude abortion from
federal employees' health
plans (complete ban) 5/13/81 X X

exclude abortion from
federal employees' health
plans (life-mother exception) 7/30/81 X X

ban federal funding of non-
therapeutic experimentation "on
a living human fetus or infant" 9/30/82 X X

Hyde Amendment (ban
funding of abortion
in Medicaid, no exception) 9/22/83 X X

exclude abortion from
federal employees' health
plans (life-mother exception) 10/27/83 X X


"Equal Rights Amendment"
(considered under no-
amendment procedure) 2 11/15/83 O X

Siljander Amendment: define
term "person" to include
"unborn children from the
moment of conception" 6/26/84 X X

exclude abortion from
federal employees' health
plans (life-mother exception) 6/27/84 X X


ENDNOTES
1. This table does not include roll calls for which either Gore or Cheney was absent.

2. The House leadership forced a vote on the ERA under " suspension of the rules," which did not permit consideration of any amendments. At the time, Cheney said he thought that certain amendments were needed, including the "abortion-neutral" amendment. This amendment, supported by NRLC, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and others, would prevent a federal ERA from being used as apro-abortion legal weapon, as state ERAs have been used.

- - Douglas Johnson, NRLCLegislative Director