Claim: Alabama Sen. Doug Jones calls new abortion ban ‘shameful’.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Doug Jones (politician)
text: pro-choice on the issue of abortion, but in 2017 was endorsed by the Campaign for Working Families, which is a pro-life PAC. In 2018, Planned Parenthood, which is pro-choice, gave Jones a 100% rating while the anti-abortion National Right to Life Committee gave him a 0% rating. Jones voted against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which prohibits abortion after 20 weeks, except in cases of rape, incest and danger to the pregnant woman's health. He also pledged to support Planned Parenthood as a Senator. Jones supports some gun control measures including "tighter background checks for gun sales and to

title: Doug Jones (politician)
text: was one of five Democratic senators who voted for the continuing resolution that failed to pass and consequently led to the United States federal government shutdown of 2018. According to Morning Consult, which polls approval ratings of senators, Jones sits with a 45% approval rating, with 28% disapproving. This is close to Jones' fellow senator, Republican Richard Shelby, who sits with a 48% approval rating, with 30% disapproving. The editorial board of "The Birmingham News" has described Jones as a "moderate Democrat". Former Alabama Democratic Party chair Giles Perkins described Jones as "a moderate, middle-of-the-road guy". Describing his own views,

title: Doug Jones (politician)
text: Justice Roy Moore. Jones was considered a longshot candidate in a deeply Republican state. A month prior to the special election, Moore was alleged to have sexually assaulted and otherwise acted inappropriately with several women, including some who were minors at the time. Jones narrowly won the special election, 50%–48%. He is up for reelection in 2020. Jones is the first Democrat to win statewide office in Alabama since Lucy Baxley was elected President of the Alabama Public Service Commission in 2008. Democrats had not represented Alabama in the U.S. Senate since 1997, when Howell Heflin left office. Richard Shelby

title: Doug Jones (politician)
text: Alabama's local economy, particularly in the areas around NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal, and would protect the United States from foreign threats. Jones voted in favor of Mike Pompeo's confirmation as Secretary of State, joining with Republicans and five other Democratic Senators. However, he opposed Gina Haspel's nomination to be CIA director. Jones has been described as an economic populist by "Newsweek". Jones was one of five Democrats who voted for the Republican budget deal in January 2018. He also was one of 17 Democrats to break with the majority of their party and

title: Doug Jones (politician)
text: Doug Jones (politician) Gordon Douglas Jones (born May 4, 1954) is an American attorney, former prosecutor and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Alabama since 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was a United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1997 to 2001. Jones was born in Fairfield, Alabama and is a graduate of the University of Alabama and Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. After graduating law school, he worked as a congressional staffer and then as a federal prosecutor before moving to private practice. In 1997, Jones was

title: Rick Womick
text: of Tennessee. He is Vice-Chair of the House Civil Justice Committee, and a member of the House Consumer and Human Resources Committee and the House Civil Justice Subcommittee. He has made anti-Muslim remarks, suggesting all Muslims serving in the United States Army should be removed. In November 2014, Womick introduced HB002, a bill that would require abortion providers to show a woman an ultrasound image of her fetus. If the woman declines to do so, the provider would be required to verbally describe the fetus, let the woman hear the heartbeat and provide the woman with an image of the

title: Abortion in Oklahoma
text: Act, which would have approved government mandated signage in public women's restrooms across the state, was revised only to require additional signage in abortion clinics. State Rep. Justin Humphrey proposed legislation that would require a pregnant woman to ask her sexual partner for permission to access abortion care. State Rep. George Faught authored legislation to ban abortion in the event of fetal genetic abnormalities, without exceptions for rape or incest. Faught defended the bill, saying, in reference to rape and incest, “God can bring beauty from ashes.” His comments drew further criticism from opponents in the Oklahoma House. In December

title: Robert Aderholt
text: stop abortions in the United States, while compassionately educating on this important issue." Aderholt is a signer of Americans for Tax Reform's Taxpayer Protection Pledge. He voted in favor of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Aderholt said he voted for the bill "to give back more money to Alabama taxpayers." He also stated that the bill "does the right thing." He cited the raising of the child tax credit, changes to the state and local tax deductions, and stated that "more than 80% the people in the 4th District of Alabama will receive a tax cut." Aderholt

title: Doug Jones (politician)
text: a member of the Canterbury United Methodist Church in Mountain Brook for more than 33 years. Jones also serves on the Advisory Board of the Blackburn Institute, a leadership development and civic engagement program at The University of Alabama. Doug Jones (politician) Gordon Douglas Jones (born May 4, 1954) is an American attorney, former prosecutor and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Alabama since 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was a United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1997 to 2001. Jones was born in Fairfield, Alabama and is a

title: Doug Jones (politician)
text: special election, running for the seat left open when Jeff Sessions was appointed as Attorney General. Sessions, a Republican, had held the Senate seat since being elected in 1996, when Democrat Howell Heflin chose not to run for re-election, and had kept it through three re-elections. Jones won the Democratic nomination in August, and became the Senator-elect for Alabama after defeating Republican former Alabama Supreme Court judge Roy Moore in the general election on December 12, 2017, which was also Jones' 25th wedding anniversary. Jones received 673,896 votes (50.0%) to Moore's 651,972 votes (48.3%) with 22,852 write-in votes (1.7%). After

title: Doug Jones (politician)
text: appointed U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama by President Bill Clinton. Jones' most prominent cases were the successful prosecution of two Ku Klux Klan members for the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four African-American girls and the indictment of domestic terrorist Eric Rudolph. He returned to private practice at the conclusion of Clinton's term in 2001. Jones announced his candidacy for United States Senate in the 2017 special election following the resignation of Republican Jeff Sessions to become U.S. Attorney General. After winning the Democratic primary in August, Jones faced his Republican opponent, former Alabama Supreme Court

title: Doug Collins (politician)
text: someone in a suicide. Collins voted for the failed Pre-Abortion Ultrasound Requirement, requiring doctors to give women who are undergoing an abortion the option of a free ultrasound, or to listen to the fetal heartbeat. He also voted in favor of Georgia's law to prohibit abortions past the 20th week, being one of the most restrictive early abortion bans in the country. In 2012 Collins signed a pledge sponsored by Americans for Prosperity promising to vote against any Global Warming legislation that would raise taxes. Collins supported President Donald Trump's 2017 executive order to impose a temporary ban on entry

title: Doug Miller (Texas politician)
text: legislative session in 2013, Miller voted to forbid abortion after twenty weeks of gestation and to increase medical requirements and licensing of abortion providers. Texas Right to Life rated him overall 76 percent favorable in 2013, compared to 60 percent in his second term in 2011. In 2013, Miller supported legislation to provide marshals for school security. He voted against the bill to authorize immunization of minors without parental consent, a measure which the House nevertheless approved, 71-61. He voted for the extension of the franchise tax exemption to certain businesses. He voted for the law which prohibits texting while

title: Haley Barbour
text: and bans on late-term abortions and state funding for elective abortions. Mississippi has historically had one of the lowest abortion rates of any state in the United States, Barbour announced on February 8, 2007, that he would seek a second term as Governor of Mississippi. Barbour announced the beginning of his re-election campaign at a series of meetings across the state on February 12, 2007. During his campaign, Barbour signed the Americans for Tax Reform "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" and vowed not to institute any new taxes or raise any existing ones. Barbour defeated Frederick Jones in the Republican primary on

title: No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act
text: critic, Mother Jones, alleged that the bill is a deliberate attempt on the part of the Republican Party to change the legal definition of rape. Another critic, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) criticized the legislation, too. An article in The Raw Story had this to say about her reaction to HR 3. "The Florida Democrat, a rising star in her party and vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, is a leading voice on women's issues. And she didn't mince her words in an interview with The Raw Story, fiercely denouncing GOP colleagues over H.R. 3, the "No Taxpayer Funding

title: Justin Humphrey
text: on abortion." Humphrey stood by his use of the term, saying he did not intend to offend anyone. On February 14, 2017, Humphrey's H.B. 1441 passed the state House Public Health Committee on a 5-2 party-line vote, with Republicans voting yes and Democrats voting no. The committee passed a second anti-abortion bill the same day. Humprey has a wife, Carla, and three children. Justin Humphrey Justin Humphrey is an American politician from the state of Oklahoma. A Republican, he is a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, representing the state House District 19. He lives in Lane, Oklahoma, in

title: Moral Mondays
text: basis of racial discrimination. His predecessor, Bev Perdue, had previously vetoed similar legislation. In early July 2013 the state House unexpectedly attached a number of restrictions on abortion access to a bill described as combating Sharia law. It passed the house less than a day later but was abandoned after protests, and McCrory said he would not sign it without modifications. An amended version of the restrictions were later added to a motorcycle safety bill. This bill was passed by the state Senate, and became a subject of the protests. In July 2013 McCrory signed into law legislation that requires

title: Mia L. Jones
text: take back is if you put a person to death, you can't bring them back to life. If you put a person to death and that person is innocent, that's one innocent life too many." Additionally, when the House was debating legislation that would "require a doctor to sign an affidavit that a woman is not seeking an abortion based on sex or gender," Jones declared that it was a "bald-faced lie" that the bill's advocates was supporting the legislation to oppose discrimination against minorities and women. Mia L. Jones Mia L. Jones (born April 26, 1968) was a Democratic

title: Charles Barkley
text: and significant. You know, I’m wasting time and energy [if I’m] screaming at a neo-Nazi, or [saying] ‘Man, you’ve got to take this statue down.'” Barkley supported Democrat Doug Jones in the 2017 United States Senate special election in Alabama. During Alabama's Senate election, Barkley noted that Jones' competitor, Roy Moore, was a complete embarrassment to the state and that if it were any other person talking about the things he stated during the state's election, he wouldn't have even been eligible for it otherwise. In an interview with Brandon 'Scoop B' Robinson on the Scoop B Radio podcast, Barkley

title: Doug Jones (politician)
text: vote with Republicans in favor of a bill to ease banking regulations. Jones opposes the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. On health care, Jones opposes the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, but he has called for changes to the U.S. health-care system, which he calls broken. He supports the re-authorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program and during his senatorial campaign repeatedly criticized his opponent for his lack of a clear stance on the program. Jones says he is open to the idea of a public option, but that he is "not there yet" on single-payer healthcare. In