I will also do whatever possible to defend life.
Continue to defend life and oppose taxpayer funding for abortions and Planned Parenthood.
Occurrences
Evidence
The page shows recent Graves press releases from April and May 2026, including a May 5, 2026 bipartisan teachers resolution and an April 29, 2026 service academy application announcement; it does not show any abortion- or Planned Parenthood-related action in the current lookback window.
This is a general legislative-process page explaining how Congress works and linking to House resources; it contains no claim-specific action, vote, bill text, or statement about abortion or Planned Parenthood in the current period.
Congress.gov member activity results show Sam Graves has cosponsored multiple anti-abortion measures historically, including bills to prohibit taxpayer-funded abortions and to protect born and unborn persons, but the displayed page is not a 2026 action and does not demonstrate a new action in the 2026-04-29 to 2026-05-28 lookback window.
Congress.gov shows Graves as a cosponsor of H.R.3056 in 2015 and other older items on the member activity pages; this is historical context only and not evidence of a new 2026 abortion-related action.
The Congressional Record index lists Graves among cosponsors of bills to prohibit taxpayer-funded abortions and protect unborn persons. This indicates consistent past support for the claim's position but is not a new action in the current lookback period.
Assessments
Graves has a documented federal-office record of cosponsoring anti-abortion measures, including measures aimed at prohibiting taxpayer-funded abortions and protecting unborn persons, which materially supports the promise to oppose taxpayer funding for abortion and defend an anti-abortion position. However, the evidence does not show that the promised policy outcome was fully enacted or that Planned Parenthood was defunded, and the current lookback evidence does not identify a fresh 2026 action. Because the claim is broad and ongoing, his legislative efforts merit partial credit rather than full delivery.
The promise is broad and ongoing: to defend life and oppose taxpayer funding for abortions and Planned Parenthood. The evidence does not show a completed policy outcome such as enacted defunding of Planned Parenthood or a lasting federal prohibition attributable to Graves. However, it does show Graves has consistently cosponsored anti-abortion and anti-taxpayer-funding measures in Congress, which is meaningful effort aligned with the promise. Because those actions demonstrate continued support and legislative participation but not clear full delivery of the promised policy result, the best judgment is partial rather than delivered. Timing is same_term because the cited congressional support includes activity while serving in office, even though no fresh lookback-window action is shown.