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The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (H.R. 4965), passed by the House on July 24, 2002, 274-151.
The Weldon-Stupak-Brownback legislation to ban all human cloning, including the cloning of human embryos (H.R. 2505, S. 1899), passed by the House on July 31, 2001, 265-162.
The Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 503), a bill to recognize as a legal victim any unborn child who is injured or killed during commission of a federal crime, passed by the House on April 26, 2001, 252-172.
The Child Custody Protection Act (H.R. 476), to make it a crime to take a minor across state lines for a secret abortion, if this abridges her parents' right to be involved under their home-state law, passed by the House on April 17, 2002, 260-161.
The Abortion Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 4691), to prohibit state and local governments from discriminating against hospitals and other health care providers for refusing to participate in abortions, passed by the House on September 25, 2002, 229-189.

The Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (H.R. 2175), which was signed into law by President Bush on August 5, 2002. This bill, backed by NRLC, establishes that any infant who is fully outside his or her mother and shows any signs of life is a legal person for all federal law purposes. Daschle allowed the bill to clear the Senate on a voice vote because pro-abortion groups decided not to actively oppose it.

It would seem the Republican controlled House has taken a strong pro-life legislative position and that these bills would have all been signed into law by the President (just as the Born Alive Infants Protection Act was) if the Democrat-controlled Senate had not blocked them.

That leads to a question: If, according to you, 65% of Republicans are pro-abortion and the party would be better off jettisoning the pro-life "fringe", why are a vast majority of elected Republican representatives pro-life?

A. Because they believe in protecting the rights of the unborn

B. Because their constituents are pro-life and elect them to represent that position.

C. Because they could not be elected without the pro-life vote.

D. You and your poll numbers are a bunch of crap.

I'm taking all of the above.

>>>It would seem the Republican controlled House has taken a strong pro-life legislative position<<<

Oh yeah? Then why didn't they ban abortion?

>>>That leads to a question: If, according to you, 65% of Republicans are pro-abortion and the party would be better off jettisoning the pro-life "fringe", why are a vast majority of elected Republican representatives pro-life?<<<

Because campaign finance reform, making individual donations less unimportant when compared to soft money, doesn't kick in until this Wednesday. Meanwhile, family planning rights advocates don't believe that Republican politicians are sufficiently liberated from soft money, and Republican politicians know this. Thus, until they can persuade the fiscally conservative, social moderates that they're not going to sell out to the religious right after getting the family planning rights' groups' votes, they may as well continue using the religious right in exchange for token symbolic gestures (without banning abortion, mind you).

As for your comment that: >>>You and your poll numbers are a bunch of crap.<<<

Most voters consider the religious right to consist of "creatures of emotion, but not necessarily much reason." And we wonder why Jeffords got so much political cover and cheers when he switched allegiances in the Senate, despite his slimy, pork-laden (milk subsidy) motivation that he had for doing so. I'm not a bunch of krap; I speak for the majority of Republicans and you may as well get used to hearing it after campaign finance reform kicks in. Not even Laura Bush sided with you guys, and abortion was never even banned by the Republican House BEFORE Soft Money became so greatly restricted. It will become even more restricted with time, so the pro-lifers may as well dedicate their energies to finally caring for the lives of folks in orphanages who have already been born (even if such an activity isn't as good for their fundraising endeavors).