Tracy Potter on Abortion

Voted against making abortion a felony

Sen. Potter voted NO on HB 1466. The bill passed the Senate 29-16.

Project Vote Smart's Synopsis: Vote to adopt a conference report that criminalizes abortion when such a ban would be upheld as constitutional. Highlights:

Makes it a Class C felony to perform an abortion.
Provides exceptions for saving the pregnant woman's life or terminating a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest.

Source: North Dakota Legislative voting records Apr 23, 2009

Define life as beginning at birth, not conception

Sen. Potter voted NO on HB 1572. The bill failed the Senate 16-29.

Project Vote Smart's Synopsis: "Legal Definition of Life": Vote to pass a bill that establishes the legislative intent for the interpretation of the laws when referring to individuals, persons, or human beings to mean organisms with the genome of homo sapiens.

OnTheIssues Synopsis: A YES vote would legally define a fetus as human, and hence define abortion as the taking of a human life.

Source: North Dakota Legislative voting records Apr 3, 2009

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