Vice President of the United States
Elected to Office: 11-8-2016Who is Mike Pence?
Mike Pence has spent his career leading efforts to restrict reproductive and LGBTQ rights, first as a member of Congress and later as governor of Indiana. Mike Pence’s policies reflect his restrictive beliefs on sex, sexuality, and gender identity. Since joining the White House, Pence has repeatedly attacked reproductive health care access and freedoms for LGBTQ people. Pence also has helped fill the administration with others who share his views.
“I long for the day that Roe v. Wade is sent to the ash heap of history.”
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Here is what Mike Pence controls
The White House (Executive Branch of the Federal Government)
The White House is responsible for carrying out and enforcing laws. It includes the president of the United States, vice president, Cabinet, and Executive Office of the President. The vice president is the second highest executive branch officer, after the president. The role of vice president has evolved over recent decades to serve as a close adviser to the president, including helping the president to identify and achieve policy goals.
Policies Mike Pence controls
Planned Parenthood
The Title X Gag Rule
Title X
LGBTQ Rights
Background on Mike Pence
Voting to End Protections for Affordable Birth Control Program
In 2017, Mike Pence cast the deciding vote to urge states to slash protections for Title X — the only federal program dedicated to helping people with low incomes access affordable birth control and other preventive reproductive health care, including STI services and cancer screenings.
LEARN MOREIn a speech to anti-abortion groups, Mike Pence predicted that legal abortion would end "in our time" and that “this will be the generation” to outlaw abortion. For proof, Pence pointed to the Trump administration's restrictions on access to safe, legal abortion and care at Planned Parenthood health centers.
US NewsAt the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference (C-PAC), Mike Pence echoed President Trump’s lies about abortion later in pregnancy, and he praised the president for pushing policies that restrict women from accessing abortion safely and legally. Pence’s rhetoric supports the administration’s overall agenda of working to outlaw abortion, with the aim of winning over the country’s minority of anti-abortion voters.
Rewire NewsAs governor of Indiana, Mike Pence signed every abortion restriction bill that passed his desk.
LEARN MOREAs an Indiana representative, Mike Pence introduced the very first piece of federal legislation to "defund" Planned Parenthood. “Defunding” is a misnomer that means blocking patients who rely on government-funded health care from accessing preventive services — like birth control and STD testing — at Planned Parenthood health centers.
VoxMike Pence’s anti-LGBTQ record is a long one, and he aggressively opposed gay rights as a legislator in Indiana. In 2015, Mike Pence ignored strong opposition and signed legislation to allow Indiana business owners to use religion as an excuse to discriminate against LGBTQ people.
CNNIn Indiana, Mike Pence’s policies as governor made a preventable HIV epidemic worse.
LEARN MOREWhile running for Congress, Mike Pence said public funding for HIV prevention should go to “institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior.” So-called conversion therapy uses discredited practices to get people to change their sexual orientation. It can cause irreparable emotional and mental trauma to LGBTQ individuals, who already face discrimination, intolerance and violence.
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