Champion for government to allow women to make 100% of the decisions concerning their health and reproductive rights.
Champion government allowing women to make all decisions concerning their health and reproductive rights.
Occurrences
I’m proud to support this resolution because it sends a message that no matter where you live in this country, your rights to make decisions about your body and your health should not be up for debate.
Evidence
“Protects women’s rights” and “help people in need.” Carter said the package would “protect women’s rights” and “help Americans... protect women’s rights,” adding the bills block attempts to limit women’s access to reproductive health care, including abortion.
The resolution was co-led by Rep. Jamie Raskin, Rep. Jennifer McClellan, Rep. Troy Carter (LA-02), Rep. Alma Adams, and Rep. Greg Casar. Carter said: “Access to safe, legal abortion is healthcare.”
Congress.gov lists Rep. Carter, Troy [D-LA-2] as a cosponsor of H.R.3755 on 09/10/2021. The related bill page says the bill prohibits governmental restrictions on provision of, and access to, abortion services.
The Clerk recorded Roll Call 295 on H.R.3755 as On Passage, status Passed, 218 yeas to 211 nays. Carter (LA), Democratic, Louisiana, voted Yea.
Congress.gov states H.R.8296 passed the House on 07/15/2022 by 219-210 and that it prohibits governmental restrictions on provision of, and access to, abortion services.
The Clerk’s roll call for H.R.8296 lists Carter (LA), Democratic, Louisiana, as voting Yea; the vote passed 219-210.
Congress.gov lists Rep. Carter, Troy [D-LA-2] as an original cosponsor on 03/30/2023. The bill summary says it prohibits governmental restrictions on abortion services and recognizes interstate travel for abortion services.
Carter said he voted for a funding package that would protect women’s rights. His office said it blocked attempts to limit women’s access to reproductive health care, including abortion.
Congress.gov lists Rep. Carter, Troy A. [D-LA-2] as an original cosponsor on 06/24/2025. The bill was referred to Energy and Commerce and Judiciary and had 207 cosponsors.
The bill text says it protects a person’s ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy and protects providers’ ability to provide abortion services. It also says reproductive justice requires individuals to make their own decisions about bodies, health, sexuality, families, and communities.
Assessments
Carter promised to champion reproductive autonomy rather than guarantee enactment of a federal reproductive-rights law. In his first House term, he cosponsored the Women’s Health Protection Act and voted yea when House versions passed in 2021 and 2022, materially advancing legislation to prohibit governmental restrictions on abortion access. He later continued the same position through further WHPA cosponsorship, appropriations messaging, and a reproductive-freedom resolution. Because the promised action was advocacy/championing and he took concrete federal legislative actions aligned with it during the same term, this counts as delivered.
The promise was framed as championing reproductive rights, not necessarily single-handedly enacting a specific statutory outcome. In federal office, Carter took concrete same-term actions aligned with the pledge: he co-led a congressional resolution declaring abortion a human right and publicly defended access to safe, legal abortion as health care. He also supported federal funding legislation he described as protecting women’s rights and blocking restrictions on reproductive health care access. These actions satisfy the advocacy-centered promise in the relevant federal office context, even though the evidence does not show a sweeping enacted reproductive-rights law attributable to him.