An Associated Press article released Monday says Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), the Senate Majority Leader, is pro-life. While Reid would like his conservative constituents to believe this, he has proven through his actions that he is in no way, shape, or form pro-life.

    The article, titled “Senate Leader Harry Reid faces tough re-election”, discusses Reid’s growing unpopularity among Nevada voters. The statement in question reads, “Reid, a Mormon, is conservative on gun control [and] opposes abortion rights.”

    However, Reid has cast consistently pro-abortion votes in the Senate:

•    Voted NO on an amendment that would prohibit the United Nations Population Fund from giving money to organizations that promote coercive abortion and forced sterilization. The bill failed 39-55.
•    Voted NO on defining the unborn child as eligible for state-funded health coverage. SCHIP is a federal program that finances health services to children of low-income families. In 2002 President George W. Bush instituted the “unborn child rule”, which allowed states to include unborn babies under those covered. But since this was an administration rule, not a law, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) offered an amendment to make the rule into law to prevent the Obama administration from ending the rule. The amendment failed 39-59.
•    Voted NO on restoring the Mexico City Policy. The policy prevented U.S. funds from going to any organization that performs or actively promotes abortion overseas. The policy was put into place in 1984 by Pres. Ronald Reagan, ended by Pres. Bill Clinton in 1993, restored by Pres. George W. Bush in 2001, and rescinded again by Pres. Obama in his third day in office. Sen. Mel Martinez offered an amendment to restore the policy again and override Obama’s executive order. The amendment failed 37-60.
•    Co-sponsors a bill (S. 487) that mandates federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, which requires the killing of human embryos to harvest stem cells, even though adult stem cell research does not require the death of human embryos and has proven far more successful. The bill is intended to solidify the mandate that Obama restored shortly after taking office.

Perhaps the most important pro-abortion action Reid has taken is supporting federally funded abortion through the “public option” in health care reform, which would be the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade.

It is clear as day that Harry Reid unequivocally supports the radical abortion agenda being pushed by Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and all their anti-life buddies. Perhaps the AP should check its facts before publishing false claims such as this.