Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was one of just two House members to vote last week against a bill reauthorizing initiatives that proponents say aid sick Americans with leukemia and other potentially deadly blood diseases through umbilical cord blood stem cell and bone marrow programs.
The House approved the TRANSPLANT Act on a 415-2 vote with U.S. Rep. Laura Boebert, R-Colorado, joining Greene in voting no.
“Last night, Congress passed a bill which is not clear about preventing buying of body parts of babies murdered in the womb,” Greene, a conservative firebrand, tweeted on Friday. “I voted NO.”
Greene spokesman Nick Dyer said “nothing in this bill prevents the funding of aborted fetal tissue by taxpayers. It opens the door for the [National Institutes of Health] to use this bill to research the remains of babies who were murdered in the womb. Congresswoman Greene will always vote 100% Pro-Life.”
Efforts to reach a Boebert spokesperson Friday were unsuccessful. Newsweek quoted the Colorado lawmaker saying “this bill added hundreds of millions of dollars to the national debt, while not receiving a CBO [Congressional Budget Office] score or going through the committee process.”