Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL - 08)
 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was first elected in 1989. Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen has co-sponsored the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, the Weldon-Stupak Human Cloning Prohibition Act, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act and the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act. She also served as the lead sponsor of the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA) in the last three sessions of Congress. Ileana was among four U.S. representatives to introduce legislation that would reinstate the Mexico City Policy, following President Obama’s repeal.Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen has been an outspoken champion on the life issue since day one. As ranking Republican Member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, she was a vocal advocate for Life in recent debates over the pro-life Mexico City Policy and the President’s Emergency Program for Aids Relief (PEPFAR). Ileana also has the distinction of being the first ever Hispanic citizen elected to Congress. She is married to Dexter Lehtinen, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. They have four children, three daughters and a son. "The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List sponsored a rally on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning, attended by Florida Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, freshman Republican Mary Fallin of Oklahoma City, and other pro-life women who are members of Congress. The participants explained that the absence of the Mexico City Policy would mean the U.S. would be “export[ing] abortion” to some of the most vulnerable women the world over—imposing our own Roe-era abortion reality on other nations, some of them pro-life countries." -- "This Mexican Policy is Keeper," June 21, 2007, National Review Online. |
