Representatives reject abortions in military hospitals
- May 15, 2006
The House of Representatives has defeated an attempt to repeal a ban on abortions at U.S. military facilities in foreign countries.
Representatives voted 237-191 against an amendment by Rep. Robert Andrews, D.-N.J., to the Department of Defense authorization bill. The proposal would have overturned a 10-year-old law that bars abortions in hospitals and other military facilities except for cases of a threat to the mother’s life and pregnancy by rape or incest. The House has repeatedly turned back efforts to gut the ban.
Thirty Democrats joined 207 Republicans in defeating the amendment May 10.