Jeff Abney
Election Information:
Party:
Democrat
District:
22
Office:
State Senate
Contact Information:
jeffabney.com
Survey Responses:
S = Support
O = Oppose
NR = No Response
O = Oppose
NR = No Response
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Life
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S | O | NR |
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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 |
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First Amendment
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S | O | NR |
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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:
I believe in eliminating all of the faith-based organizations tax exempt status if they expect to be exempt from regulations. Faith-based organizations do not have a right to be free from taxes, it is a privilege. That privilege is only extended insomuch that they abide by the laws and regulations of the state and federal government. If you are a faith-based adoption agency, I would never allow you to exclude other races or religions from placement of a child because of your beliefs. You do not get to carve out your own existence and live by separate rules.
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Family
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S | O | NR |
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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:
Counseling is fine, but not forcible indoctrination or shame based approaches.
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Education
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S | O | NR |
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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:
You do not get to create a failing business model where you need the government to subsidize your tuition and then not have any regulations or guidelines. Zero tax money for private schools is my platform. Private schooling is a choice and the financial implications that go with it should be an individuals burden. A lot of you need to grow up and stop trying to keep your children protected from the reality of the world. School projects and lessons that parents object to are going to happen. That is when you do your job as a parent and talk to your child about why it offends you. Then let the child decide the truth of the matter.
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Health and Welfare
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S | O | NR |
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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:
I fully support the right for the individual to choose what is best to do with her body up to the viability of a fetus outside of the womb. Prior to that, it is no one else's business. I trust medical science to determine when that viability is. I do not believe anyone should get to dictate other people having to live by their views on abortion. The ego it takes to do that is insane and should be embarrassing. I will always fight for your right to not get an abortion and I will always fight for someone else's right to having access to abortion. Reproductive freedom is healthcare and should be a right.