Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) has been making a point lately of telling voters that he doesnt support a nationwide abortion ban.

In a Thursday interview with a local news station, FOX43, Perry said he agrees with former President Donald Trump that abortion rights should be decided by individual states. Thats effectively what conservatives on the Supreme Court decided in June 2022 when they struck down Roe v. Wade.

I think its the appropriate one, he said of Trumps position. Lets honor the courts decision, and then have the states figure that out so that we have those decisions being made locally, where they should be.

Perry, a former chairman of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, said the same thing a few weeks earlier at a Republican political conference in his state, emphasizing that he opposes a national abortion ban and supports fertility treatments like in vitro fertilization. Both topics have been hotly debated and will be major campaign issues in the November elections in the aftermath of the Supreme Courts 2022 decision, as well as the Alabama Supreme Courts decision in February to define frozen embryos as children.

But the Pennsylvania Republican is hoping nobody notices that hes signed on to legislation in Congress for the last seven years to impose a near-total nationwide abortion ban and hes still a cosponsor of this bill.

Perry has backed the Life at Conception Act in every Congress since 2017. This bill guarantees a constitutional right to life to every human being, and defines human being to include all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into being.

In effect, this legislation would outlaw virtually all abortion. It makes no exceptions for pregnancies that resulted from rape or incest. It makes no exceptions for embryos created through IVF, either.

Here is Perrys name officially listed as a sponsor of this bill in 2017 , 2019 , 2021 and 2023 . His name has an asterisk next to it to denote that he is an original sponsor of this bill, meaning he signed onto it as a supporter as soon as it was introduced.