Rep. Banks has stood up against the ever-growing pro-abortion agenda of the Biden-Harris administration and the radical bureaucrats who are actively working to expand abortion access, resources, and funding. Rep. Banks has voted consistently to defend the lives of the unborn and infants. This includes stopping hard-earned tax dollars from paying for abortion, including abortion travel expenses, whether domestically or internationally, and pushing back on the Biden-Harris administration’s extreme executive actions on abortion.

In a hearing, Rep. Banks called out the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) for promoting abortion. Rep. Banks introduced H.R. 7161, the Abortion Funding Awareness Act, to require states to annually submit and publish reports to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on all federally-funded abortions. As Chairman of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, Rep. Banks co-led a letter to Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, demanding answers about a training held at Fort Liberty that characterized pro-life organizations as terrorist groups.

Congressman Banks has stood up against the pro-abortion agenda of the Biden-Harris administration and Pelosi Democrats who are actively working to expand abortion access and abortion funding. Rep. Banks has voted consistently to defend the lives of the unborn and infants. This includes stopping hard-earned tax dollars from paying for abortion, whether domestically or internationally, and protecting health care provider rights for those who refuse to engage in brutal abortions.

Congressman Banks led a letter to congressional leadership expressing unified opposition to attempts to repeal the Hyde Amendment or Hyde-like protections in President Biden's FY2022 budget. He also introduced H.R. 620, the Dignity for Aborted Children Act, and H.R. 500 to prohibit the rescission, suspension, or revision of certain regulations that govern the Title X family planning program. He sent a letter demanding that Google stop silencing pro-life views and reverse unjust censorship. Additionally, Rep. Banks sponsored a resolution commemorating the anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Consensus Declaration. During a hearing on the President's Budget for FY2023, he pressed HHS Secretary Becerra on his repeated refusals to acknowledge the federal partial birth abortion ban, demanded investigations into the potentially illegal procurement of aborted human fetal tissue at the University of Pittsburgh, and criticized the administration's federal funding of abortion providers through Title X. The Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs gave the authority to enact limits on abortion to both state and federal lawmakers. Rep. Banks is among a select group of courageous Members of Congress who quickly accepted their responsibility to protect unborn children nationally by cosponsoring the Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act in the fall of 2022.

Congressman Banks has voted consistently to protect the lives of the unborn as well as the consciences of taxpayers who don’t want their hard-earned tax dollars paying for abortion domestically or internationally. Rep. Banks has defended the Trump administration’s pro-life regulatory efforts from pro-abortion attacks to prohibit their implementation.

Congressman Banks introduced H.R. 64, the Patients First Act, and led two important Congressional member letters - a letter to the FDA commissioner expressing concerns related to risks associated with chemical abortion, and a letter to Speaker Pelosi pledging to oppose undermining of Hyde protections in health care. He co-introduced H.R. 4934, the Dignity for Aborted Children Act with Rep. Jackie Walorski. Together with the Indiana delegation, he pushed for state and federal investigations into abortionist Klopfer after the discovery of the fetal remains of well over 2000 babies on his property. Congressman Banks co-authored an article with Charlotte Lozier Institute Vice President David Prentice in The Washington Examiner titled "Follow State's Lead and Block Fetal Tissue in Research." He also offered a unanimous consent request for consideration of H.R. 962, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and participated in the minority hearing on the Born-Alive bill. Representative Banks wrote to the Indiana Governor expressing concern regarding ongoing elective abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic despite the governor's executive order regarding nonessential services.