Where the Candidates for Senate Stand on Abortion

Andrew Rocky Raczkowski

Partial-Birth Abortion
As a member of the Michigan House, Rocky voted for Michigan’s Infant Protection Act, a law which stated that a partially-born child wasn’t a fetus but a person who deserves to be protected by law. This law was designed to end the gruesome and painful procedure where a living child that is almost completely outside her mother’s womb is killed. If elected to the Senate, Rocky will work to protect all children, born, partially born and unborn.

Federal Funding of Abortion
Rocky fully supports Michigan’s ban on tax-dollars being spent to pay for abortions. During his time in the Michigan House, Rocky has voted to eliminate elective abortions as a part of state employee health benefits. He also voted to prioritize family planning funds to organizations that don’t perform abortions or view abortion as part of family planning. If elected senator, Rocky will vote against any attempt to make Americans pay for abortions in America or overseas.

Funding Experiments
on Tissue from Aborted Babies
Rocky supports a bill that is currently waiting for a vote in the Michigan House. H.B. 5578 will ban researchers from using tissue from aborted children in experiments. Rocky is opposed to research that might create new incentives to abort unborn children and could possibly lead to more abortions. If elected to the Senate, Rocky will vote against measures that attempt to use federal tax dollars to fund experiments on the tissue from aborted children.

Judicial Nominees
Rocky believes that federally appointed judges should be chosen based on their abilities; not their opinions. Rocky feels that judges should know that their role is to interpret the law and not legislate from the bench.

Carl Levin

Partial-Birth Abortion
As a U.S. Senator, Carl Levin has voted numerous times to keep the gruesome procedure known as partial-birth abortion legal. His extreme pro-abortion position is clearly shown as he continuously supports a procedure where a live child is killed while she is in the process of being born. If elected senator, Carl Levin will continue to deny partially born children the right to live.

Federal Funding of Abortion
During his 24 years as a U.S. Senator, Carl Levin has voted over and over again to spend U.S. tax dollars on programs that fund the forced abortion policies in China, to provide tax-funded abortions in the United States, to allow insurance to pay for the abortions of federal employees and to force military medical facilities to perform abortions. If elected to the Senate again, Carl Levin will continue to vote for legislation that would use tax dollars to pay for abortions.

Funding Experiments
on Tissue from Aborted Babies
In 1997, Carl Levin voted to use federal tax dollars on experiments involving the tissue and body parts of aborted fetuses. In 1999, he voted against legislation that would have required detailed reporting on transactions that involved the remains of children who died by any method of abortion. This legislation was introduced because some abortionists were making money by selling the remains of aborted children to medical researchers.

Judicial Nominees
During the last two years in the U.S. Senate, Carl Levin has worked to make sure that all of President Bush’s judicial nominees who don’t share his extreme proabortion views won’t make it to the bench. At the urging of Levin, the Senate Judiciary Committee refused to even hold hearings on any nominees to the Sixth Circuit Court even though seven of the 16 seats are vacant.

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