“Will not vote for a national (federal) abortion ban, holding that the issue was returned to the states by the Supreme Court and should be decided at the state level.”
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Independent verification confirms the prior researcher's citations are real and support the rating. H.R. 722 (Life at Conception Act, sponsored by Rep. Burlison R-MO) — the leading federal fetal-personhood measure — has 68 cosponsors and Gabe Evans is NOT among them, consistent with his pledge (verified via Congress.gov bill text). H.R. 21 (Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act), Roll Call 27 on Jan 23 2025, on which Evans voted Yea, is a post-birth-care measure, not a federal abortion ban (verified via clerk.house.gov). On Sen. Hawley's proposed federal mifepristone/abortion-pill restrictions, Evans hedged, saying mifepristone has 'viable medical uses' and he needs to read the bill (NOTUS, verified). No comprehensive federal abortion ban has come to a House floor vote in the 119th Congress, so the specific promise-testing vote has not occurred. Non-cosponsorship of H.R. 722 is consistent with the pledge but is negative evidence — not a legislative act on his part — so it does not warrant lifting to ATTEMPTED/CHAMPIONED. NO_OPPORTUNITY at 0.55 confidence is fair under the same neutral standard I would apply to any party.
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