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Heather Hickman

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Election Information:

Party: 
Republican
District: 
SC House 15
Office: 
State House or Assembly

Contact Information:

VoteHeatherHickman.com

Survey Responses:

S = Support
O = Oppose
NR = No Response
Life
S O NR
1.
Protecting Life: Protecting the right to life of an unborn baby with a beating heart.
X
2.
Taxpayer Funded Abortion: Allowing taxpayer dollars to fund organizations that provide abortion.
X
3.
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Allowing voluntary physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.
X
Candidate's Comments:
God is the Author of life. We are made in His image, and only He should decide when we die.
First Amendment
S O NR
4.
Conscience Rights for Professionals: Prohibiting the government from denying required licensure or certification to individuals because of their religious or political beliefs.
X
5.
Conscience Rights for Faith-Based Organizations: Exempting faith-based organizations (e.g. adoption/foster care providers, private schools) from regulations that cause them to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs.
X
6.
Prohibiting De-Banking/Insuring Based on Beliefs: Prohibiting financial institutions from shutting a customer’s bank account or canceling their insurance because of their religious or political views.
X
Candidate's Comments:
Our rights come from our Creator and are secured by the US Constitution, which protects our free exercise of religion.
Family
S O NR
7.
Protecting Kids from Social Media: Requiring platforms to by default prevent underage accounts without parental permission, preserve parents' authority when access is allowed, and remove addictive design features and data exploitation from underage accounts.
X
8(a).
Parental Rights: Allowing parents to obtain professional counseling for a child struggling with gender confusion to help the child find comfort with his or her biological sex.
X
8(b).
Parental Rights: Protecting parents from losing custody of their child solely because they treat their child consistent with his or her biological sex.
X
Candidate's Comments:
Legislation is not the proper answer to parenting - parents are to be responsible for their children's upbringing. However, should parents fail to protect their children from porn or obscenity, those parents should be faulted. My state does have laws against distributing or allowing to be distributed pornographic or obscene material to minors. Laws should not "allow" parents to obtain professional counseling - that should NEVER be prohibited by any government agency or by legislation
Education
S O NR
9.
School Choice: Allowing the use of tax credits, vouchers, and/or education savings accounts to cover the cost of children attending the school of their parents’ choice, including private religious schools.
X
10.
Free Speech at School: Protecting teachers and students from being forced to refer to a person by inaccurate pronouns that do not align with the person’s sex.
X
11.
School Healthcare Disclosure to Parents: Requiring schools to inform parents of any mental, physical, or emotional health information and treatment that a child is receiving at school.
X
12.
Transparency in School Curriculum & Activities: Giving parents access to the curriculum, presentations, and activities that their children are learning in school and allowing them to opt their children out of school extra-curricular activities, presentations, or specific lessons to which the parents object.
X
Candidate's Comments:
#9 has no straight answer - government "vouchers' come with government strings attached, in my state. That said, parents should not be paying for public schools that their children do not attend. 11 - Schools should not be delivering treatments of children. Yes, to requiring that schools notify parents of their observations regarding the child's health, but schools must not make those treatment choices for them. #12 a) Distributing teaching materials to parents should be required, timely ahead of the instruction period (at least a week prior), whether for public or private schools, if the state has accredited the institution. b) Opting OUT is not foolproof, and it is extremely undesirable for students to "accidentally" be given the wrong material or taken to the wrong event. [Schools should not be offering materials that a parent feels they should have to opt their child out of. However, we know that it happens.] As "objectionable" is considered to be subjective, YES, parents must be able to opt out as necessary.
Health and Welfare
S O NR
13.
Medical Rights of Conscience: Protecting health care workers from losing their jobs if they decline to participate in a procedure or treatment that violates their personal beliefs and conscience.
X
14.
Women’s Privacy: Preventing males who identify as female from entering sex-separated spaces intended for females, such as showers, locker rooms, bathrooms, dormitories, women’s shelters, prisons, etc.
X
15.
Protecting Pregnancy Centers: Ensuring pregnancy centers that provide life-affirming support to women and their families are not targeted or penalized by government officials.
X
Candidate's Comments:
#13 - why are we singling out health care workers? Any worker or member of the military should have the same protections, secured by the US Constitution (the Supreme law of the land.)