Editing David Vitter (section)

====Abortion====
In October 2007, Vitter introduced an amendment<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00379|title=On the Amendment (Vitter Amdt. No.3330 )|publisher=[[United States Senate]]|access-date=November 17, 2007}}</ref> barring all federal public funds to health care providers and [[Planned Parenthood]] that provide services that include abortion. Federal law bars any funding to directly finance elective abortions in accordance with the Hyde amendment. Vitter argued that the funds are used for [[Overhead (business)|overhead costs]] that benefit the abortion services. The amendment failed to pass.<ref>{{cite news|date=October 19, 2007|author=Alpert, Bruce|url=http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1192804244133220.xml&coll=1|title=Abortion plan is defeated in Senate|newspaper=[[The Times-Picayune]]|access-date=October 19, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222152851/http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fnews-2%2F1192804244133220.xml&coll=1|archive-date=February 22, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=October 28, 2007|author=Taylor, Andrew|url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iSj9rQxYovv7EP4uGrPZ_dAqaoDgD8SBUTBG0|title=No Cut in Money for Abortion Providers|agency=Associated Press|access-date=October 19, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024141408/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iSj9rQxYovv7EP4uGrPZ_dAqaoDgD8SBUTBG0|archive-date=October 24, 2007}}</ref> Following the rejection, Vitter and others urged
the Senate to pass a similar bill introduced by Vitter in
January 2007. The bill failed to pass.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-351|title=S. 351: Title X Family Planning Act|publisher=GovTrack|access-date=November 17, 2007}}</ref>

In January 2008, Vitter proposed an amendment to prohibit the funding of abortions with [[Indian Health Service]] funds except in the case of rape, [[incest]], or when the life of the woman is at risk.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/amendment.xpd?session=110&amdt=s3896|title=S.Amdt. 3896: To modify a section relating to limitation on use of funds...|publisher=GovTrack.us|access-date=January 23, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830025429/http://www.govtrack.us/congress/amendment.xpd?session=110&amdt=s3896|archive-date=August 30, 2008}}</ref> The amendment would have held future presidential administrations to an executive principle first crafted in 1982 by the [[Ronald Reagan]] White House.<ref>{{cite web|date=February 26, 2008|author=KALB News Channel 5|url=http://www.kalb.com/index.php/news/article/senate-passes-vitter-amendment-to-prohibit-federal-funding-of-abortions/4025/|title=Senate Passes Vitter Amendment to Prohibit Federal Funding of Abortions|publisher=KALB.com|access-date=February 27, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080314154452/http://www.kalb.com/index.php/news/article/senate-passes-vitter-amendment-to-prohibit-federal-funding-of-abortions/4025/ |archive-date = March 14, 2008}}</ref> Vitter's amendment passed the Senate but later was stalled in the House.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1200|title=S. 1200|access-date=April 29, 2009|author=110th Congress (2007)|date=April 24, 2007|work=Legislation|publisher=GovTrack.us|quote=Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2008}}</ref>

Later that year, Vitter co-sponsored the Pregnant Women Health and Safety Act which –  along with other oversight regulations – required doctors performing abortions to have the authority granted by a nearby hospital to admit patients. The bill was never reported to committee.<ref>{{cite news|date=April 20, 2008|last=Alpert|first=Bruce|author2=Walsh, Bill|url=http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/washington/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1208669675248010.xml&coll=1|title=On The Hill: Bill tightens abortion penalties|newspaper=[[The Times-Picayune]]|access-date=April 21, 2008}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=March 31, 2008|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-2788|title=S. 2788 – 110th Congress (2008): Pregnant Women Health and Safety Act|publisher=GovTrack.us (database of federal legislation)|access-date=May 6, 2008}}</ref>