Presentation from the launch of the 21st edition of "Who Decides? The Status of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States" on January 19, 2012.

1. Could 2012 Be Worse than 2011?
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An Analysis of Choice-Related Trends
and Actions
January 19, 2012

2. 2010 Elections At a Glance
111TH CONGRESS 112TH CONGRESS
House of Representatives House of Representatives
300 300 247
204
200 181
200 154
100 48 100
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0 0
Pro-choice Mixed-choice Anti-choice Pro-choice Mixed-choice Anti-choice
Senate Senate
50 50 46
41 40 40
40 40
30
19 30
20
20 14
10
10
0
0
Pro-choice Mixed-choice Anti-choice
Pro-choice Mixed-choice Anti-choice
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3. Votes Taken in 2011 vs. Previous Years
U.S. House of
Year Representatives Votes on
Choice-Related Issues
2011 8
2010 1
2009 3
2008 0
2007 2
2006 2
* 225 out of 435 lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives voted
for every anti-choice measure brought before them.
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4. Federal Trends
• H.R.3
• H.R.358
• Pence
• Reinstating the DC Ban
• Attempts to Eliminate Family-Planning Programs
• Race- and Sex-Selection Abortion Ban
• Plan B®
• Re-funding “Abstinence-Only” Programs
• Refusals
• Continuing Attempts to Dismantle the Affordable Care Act
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5. H.R.3
• “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion
Act”
• Passed House: 251-175 (5/4/11)
• Pro-choice voters included four
pro-life members and 14 Stupak
supporters AP
Bill Author: Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ)
 Imposes tax penalties on millions of American families
 Bans insurance coverage of abortion in the new health-care
system (Stupak-Pitts amendment)
 Permanently codifies all federal abortion bans
 Manipulates the tax code and could spur the IRS to audit
rape and incest survivors who choose abortion care.
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6. H.R.358
• “Protect Life Act”
• Passed House: 251-172 (10/13/11)
• Pro-choice voters included four
pro-life members and 14 Stupak
supporters
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Bill Author: Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA)
 Allows hospitals to refuse to
provide emergency abortion
care to women who could die
without it
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7. Pence Amendment
• Modeled after H.R.217
• “Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act”
• Passed House twice:
▪ FY’11 Continuing Resolution, H.R.1: 240-
185 (2/18/11)
▪ FY’11 CR, H.Con.Res.36: 241-185 (4/14/11)
 Defunds family-planning clinics that
also offer abortion services; jeopardizes
millions of women’s access to birth
control, cancer screenings, and other
basic health care
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Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) 7

8. Attempts to Eliminate
Family-Planning Programs
House anti-choice leadership tried
twice to de-fund domestic and
international family-planning
programs:*
▪ Title X
▪ United Nations Population Fund
▪ USAID (proposed $100 million
cut)
*H.R.1 and H.R.___, FY’12 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Bill
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9. Race- and Sex-Selection
Abortion Ban
• H.R.3541
• “The Susan B. Anthony and
Frederick Douglass Prenatal
Nondiscrimination Act”
 Criminalizes doctors who fail to
Bill Author: Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ)
determine if race or sex is a factor
in a woman’s decision to terminate • Rep. Franks has a five-
a pregnancy percent rating from the
NAACP on civil rights.
 Penalties include up to five years • He voted against the equal-
imprisonment pay bill and backed efforts
to cut funding for prenatal
care and contraception.
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10. Attempts to Dismantle the
Affordable Care Act
• House voted twice to dismantle the Affordable Care
Act
▪ H.R.2 passed House: 245-189 (1/19/11)
▪ H.Res.9 passed House: 253-175 (1/20/11)
• House voted to block funding for the law
▪ Pitts amendment to H.R.1 passed House: 239-183
(2/19/11)
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12. Anti-Choice Attacks in the States
Since 1995, states
have enacted 713
anti-choice measures
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13. State Governments’
Positions on Choice
Governors
2011 2012
Pro-choice 17* 17*
Mixed-choice 5 5
Anti-choice 29 29
State Legislatures State Governments
2011 2012 2011 2012
Pro-choice 9* 9* Pro-choice 7* 7*
Anti-choice 19 23 Anti-choice 15 19
*including the District of Columbia
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14. 2010 vs. 2011
80
70
69
60
States enacted twice
50
as many anti-choice
measures in 2011 as 40 34
they did in 2010. 30
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2010 2011
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15. Threats to Choice: Three Governors
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Gov. Rick Scott of FL Arizona, Florida, and Kansas
enacted the most anti-choice
measures in 2011, with five
each.
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Gov. Sam Brownback
of KS
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Gov. Jan Brewer of AZ
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16. Pro-Choice Governors
Gov. Mark Dayton of MN Gov. Brian Schweitzer of MT
Vetoed several anti-choice bills that swept through the
newly anti-choice legislatures in those states, thus
preventing 2011 from becoming a record-breaking year
for the enactment of anti-choice measures.
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17. State Trends
• Mandatory-Ultrasound Legislation
• Bans on Insurance Coverage of Abortion
• Nebraska Copycat Bans
• Race- and Sex-Selection Abortion Bans
• Defunding Family-Planning Providers
• “Personhood” Measures
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18. Trend:
Mandatory-Ultrasound Legislation
• Forces women to undergo ultrasounds even
if against their will and not medically
necessary
• Interferes in the doctor-patient relationship
• Women should have the option of an
ultrasound if they request it or if their doctor
recommends it
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19. Trend: Abortion-Coverage Bans
• Ban abortion coverage in health insurance
• Interfere in a woman’s ability to make personal,
private decisions with her doctor
• Women whose pregnancies experience
complications could be forced to pay out of
pocket for abortion, even if it’s necessary to
protect their health
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20. Abortion-Coverage Bans
Sixteen states have
some kind of ban on
insurance coverage
of abortion.
Abortion-coverage bans before health-care reform
All abortion-coverage bans
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21. Outlook for 2012:
Abortion-Coverage Bans
44
Anti- or mixed-choice state governments
16
Number of these states with abortion-coverage bans
28
Number of states that could enact this ban in 2012
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22. Trend: Nebraska Copycat Bans
Ban abortion after 20 weeks with no
exception for women facing serious
health complications, fetal
anomalies, rape, or incest
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23. Nebraska Copycat Bans
Six states have
Nebraska copycat
abortion bans.
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24. Trend: Race- and Sex-Selection
Abortion Bans
Criminalize doctors who fail to determine
if race or sex is a factor in a woman’s
decision
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25. Trend: Defunding Family-Planning
Providers
•Disqualify abortion providers from state “In all, about $3 million in taxpayer
family-planning programs money goes to Planned Parenthood
of Indiana annually to pay for
services such as birth control, cancer
•Family-planning services provide screenings and tests for sexually
thousands of women in our state with transmitted diseases.”
access to birth control, cancer
“That includes federal grant money
screenings, and other basic health care. that supports about 12,500 low-
income patients at eight Planned
• Improving access to birth control is one Parenthood centers in Northwest and
of the best ways to help reduce the need Southern Indiana. It also pays for
about 9,300 statewide patients on
for abortion. Medicaid to receive services from
Planned Parenthood.”*
• Anti-choice attacks on family-planning
services are hypocritical and bad for
women.
*http://www.indystar.com/article/20110422/NEWS05/104220339 25

26. Ballot Measures in 2012
• States with qualified ballot measures for 2012:
FL, MT
• States with potential anti-choice ballot
measures: CA, CO, NV, OH, OR
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27. Ballot Measures
Qualified ballot measure for 2012
Potential for anti-choice ballot measure in 2012
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28. Kellie Copeland, Executive Director
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29. Changes in Ohio’s Political Composition
State Government
2010 2011
Pro-choice
Mixed-choice x
Anti-choice x
State Legislature
Senate House
2010 2011 2010 2011
Pro-choice Pro-choice
Mixed-choice Mixed-choice x
Anti-choice x x Anti-choice x

30. Effects of Ohio’s Electoral Changes
Anti-choice measures enacted:
• A ban on insurance coverage of abortion in
the new health-care exchange and for local-
government employees
• Abortion bans without adequate
exceptions to protect a woman’s health or
in cases of rape or incest, including a ban at
public hospitals (OSU Medical Center)
• Measure making it more difficult for
young women in difficult circumstances to
access abortion care
Gov. Kasich
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31. First-in-the Nation “Heartbeat Bill”
• Bans abortion before many women even know
they are pregnant
• Passed Ohio House; pending in the Senate
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32. Resources
NARAL Pro-Choice America
www.ProChoiceAmerica.org
NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio
www.ProChoiceOhio.org
Media Inquiries:
202-973-3032 or
Media@ProChoiceAmerica.org
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