25 GOP Senators Urge That Spending Bills Protect Pro-Life Measures

Anti-abortion activists participate in the "March for Life," an annual event to mark the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in the US, outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, January 18, 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Twenty-five Republican members of the Senate urged Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) on May 23 to preserve “all long-standing pro-life and religious freedom protections in all appropriations bills” that advance out of the committee.

The senators also appealed to Shelby “that you do not advance as bill-text any language that weakens pro-life and religious liberty actions taken by the Trump administration.