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ChampionedReproductive Rights

Committed to continue working in Congress to codify into federal law the standards established by Roe v. Wade protecting access to abortion.

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 70%

Independently verified. The Women's Health Protection Act (WHPA) is precisely the vehicle for codifying Roe's standards into federal law, and Ossoff did more than cast a single supporting vote: (1) He voted Yea on the Senate cloture motion to proceed to the WHPA (Senate roll call 117-2-65, Feb 28 2022, cloture rejected 46-48), confirmed directly on the official Senate vote page. (2) He is a listed cosponsor of the Women's Health Protection Act of 2023 (S.701), one of 50 Democratic cosponsors with Sen. Tammy Baldwin as lead sponsor -- cosponsorship of the exact codification bill is a form of sponsorship, not merely a vote. (3) His public commitment is documented in his own May 3 2022 statement pledging to 'sustain and strengthen my efforts in Congress to codify in Federal law the standards established by the landmark Roe v. Wade decision,' and his reproductive-rights voting record scores 97% on the Reproductive Freedom for All scorecard. Because Democrats never reached the 60 votes needed to break the filibuster, the codification was not enacted, so this cannot be FULL or PARTIAL. The sustained cosponsorship plus repeated votes and public advocacy place it above a mere ATTEMPTED (single vote) and support CHAMPIONED. Confidence held at 0.7 because Ossoff acted as a consistent caucus cosponsor (1 of 50) rather than the individual lead author/driver, which is the honest limit of 'led/drove' the effort. The same standard applied to a minority-party senator of any party who cosponsored the exact promise-fulfilling bill and voted for it repeatedly would yield the same label. (Note: the prior rationale's reference to a 2024 'Reproductive Freedom for Women Act' vote could not be substantiated as a distinctly named bill and is omitted here; it was not load-bearing.)

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