[2] Cavalcante voted in favor of the impeachment against then-president Dilma Rousseff and political reformation.

[3] He would later back Rousseff's successor Michel Temer against a similar impeachment motion, and also voted in favor of the Brazil labor reform (2017).

[5] During his time in office Cacalcante has lobbied with other evangelical politicians including Eduardo Cunha and Everaldo Pereira.

[7][8] Cavalcante stated that he proposed the bill to "test" whether Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would fulfill his promise not to veto projects of a moral nature.

[9][10] The project was accepted by the president of the Chamber, Arthur Lira, and began to be processed urgently after a controversial symbolic vote, which generated a wave of protests over its content, given that the proposal would equate the penalty for abortion after 22 weeks of gestation to that of the crime of homicide, being greater than the penalty for the crime of rape itself and therefore penalizing the victim more than the rapist.