Benjamin Thomas Larson
Election Information:
Party:
Democrat
District:
19
Office:
State House or Assembly
Contact Information:
https://benjaminlarson.org/
I refuse twitter.
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:
4 reads out like one of those "I'm mad I was told to get a shot" from the pandemic. 5 is because they've attempted in the past to use that as an excuse to not take in LGBT+ persons.
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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:
7 is some serious over reach and will force all websites and online systems to keep an active, and constantly updated log of underage visitors which will make identifying children online extremely easy. Hard no. 8. is clear anti-trans bullshit. Get that crap outta here. You're just desperate to hack your way into your child's private life to control them. Have you thought about not being weird and talking to your kid? Being a good parent?
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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:
God ya'll are snowflakes. 9. if you can't support your own schools, then you don't get to steal from others. 10. All these laws are written in a way, that makes teachers unable to even call kids knicknames. This culture war is SO stupid. 11. I shouldn't have clicked this; if it was literally ANYONE ELSE I would support it, but I know ya'll are using this to hunt out every child for not measuring up to your standards. Seriously, you losers are PURITY TESTING CHILDREN, what are you even doing? Do you know anymore? 12. WAHHHH I'M SO ASHAMED OF MY NATIONS PAST I DON'T WANT YOU TEACHING IT TO MY KID WAHHHH
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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:
Under the current medicare and medicaid cuts, Iowa now has no maternal care in a third of the state and is rapidly losing doctors and clinics- how can a party claim to be "pro life" when the cancer rate is #1 in the nation? How can you claim to be pro-family if you're against maternal cares, paid father leave for new births, or cutting healthcare, or raising our cancer rates?