Steve believes in protecting and promoting parents’ role in their child’s education, standing up for pro-life values, and protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.
Stand up for pro-life values.
Occurrences
Evidence
The member page lists H.R. 21, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, as a 119th Congress bill with 163 cosponsors and a Passed House status; latest action shown was Senate referral on 2025-01-24.
GovInfo’s Congressional Record Index entry for ABORTION lists multiple abortion-related bills in the 119th Congress, including H.R. 12, H.R. 7237, and H.R. 8366.
In his most recent official House press release within the lookback window, Scalise highlighted House Republicans’ efforts on veterans, housing costs, women’s contributions, and law enforcement; the release does not mention abortion or other pro-life actions.
Congress.gov lists Rep. Steve Scalise [R-LA-1] as an original cosponsor of H.R. 21, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, with date cosponsored 2025-01-03.
The House Clerk records Roll Call 27 on H.R. 21, Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, as passed 217-204-1 on 2025-01-23; Scalise, Republican of Louisiana, voted Yea.
Congress.gov shows H.R. 21 was introduced on 2025-01-03, passed the House on 2025-01-23 by 217-204-1, and was received in the Senate and referred to Judiciary on 2025-01-24. Its tracker status is Passed House.
The text of H.R. 21 states that an infant born alive after an abortion is a legal person entitled to legal protections and would require practitioners to preserve the child's life and health, with criminal penalties for violations.
Scalise's Congress.gov member page lists H.R. 21, Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, in the 119th Congress with 163 cosponsors, latest Senate referral on 2025-01-24, and status Passed House.
Congress.gov lists Scalise as an original cosponsor of the 118th Congress version of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, H.R. 26, on 2023-01-09.
The House Clerk records H.R. 26, Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, as passed 220-210-1 on 2023-01-11; Scalise voted Yea.
Assessments
The promise is broad advocacy language rather than a pledge to enact a specific abortion law. In the current federal House term, Scalise original-cosponsored H.R. 21, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, and voted yea when it passed the House on January 23, 2025. The bill is substantively aligned with pro-life policy goals, and House passage plus his cosponsorship and vote are concrete same-term actions within his office authority as a U.S. Representative. Senate inaction prevents treating it as a fully enacted policy result, but the stated promise was to stand up for pro-life values, which these actions satisfy.
Scalise’s promise was broad and values-based rather than a specific enactment pledge. The evidence shows he was associated in the 119th Congress with H.R. 21, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a major pro-life measure that passed the House and was referred to the Senate on January 24, 2025. In federal House context, materially backing and helping advance a pro-life bill through the chamber is enough to count as standing up for pro-life values, even though the bill had not become law. The more recent press release and GovInfo index do not add a new delivery event, but they also do not negate the House-passed pro-life action.