Congress Abortion Foes Found Also to Oppose Family Issues

A survey found that members of Congress who oppose abortion also frequently vote against programs that would allow more women to deliver and raise healthy babies, a pro-choice abortion group said Sunday.

The study by Catholics for a Free Choice compared the records of 30 senators on each side of the abortion issue.

It also compared the voting records on pro-child and pro-family issues of 100 House members who support a woman’s right to abortion with the voting records of 100 members who oppose legal abortion.

The study used votes on six key issues, including cost-of-living adjustments in the earned income tax credit for low-income wage earners and expanding Medicaid eligibility for poor pregnant women and children, determined by the Children’s Defense Fund as critical to low- and moderate-income parents and their children to form the basis for determining which lawmakers supported programs that help women bear and raise healthy children.