Alex Taylor
Election Information:
Party:
Democrat
District:
46
Office:
State House or Assembly
Contact Information:
www.alextaylorforstaterep.com
https://x.com/AlexTaylor4PA46?t=MBxT8P8yt78bwQKM_eeQ9g&s=09
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.Prohibiting Abortion: Prohibiting abortion after a baby’s heartbeat is detected, with limited exceptions such as to save the mother’s life or in cases of rape or incest. |
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.Transparency in Banking: Allowing consumers to obtain a written explanation when a financial institution shuts down the consumer’s account to protect against ideologically driven cancellations. |
X | ||
7.Privacy in Financial Giving: Protecting confidential donor information so individuals are able to privately support charities and causes of their choice without fear of being doxed. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
No one should be treated differently due to their beliefs or values, but treating others differently because of your own beliefs or values isn't right and doesn't protect you from consequences of treating others differently because of your own beliefs. As for donations, I believe if a person wants to donate anonymously to a charity or private organization that's fine so long as that private organization does not do anything to interfere or attempt to influence our political process (i.e. publishes an ad) as soon as a donation or an org that uses donation monies to fund political ads/candidates those donors and their donation amounts should be made public knowledge to protect our own political process.
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Family
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S | O | NR |
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8.Parental Rights in Gender Identity Counseling: 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 | ||
9(a).Protected Class for Sexual Orientation: Elevating “sexual orientation” to a protected class alongside race, religion, sex, age, and disability in nondiscrimination law. |
X | ||
9(b).Protected Class for Gender Identity: Elevating “gender identity” to a protected class alongside race, religion, sex, age, and disability in nondiscrimination law. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
Only reason I say oppose to "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" is because it sounds like we'd be allowing parents to find a counselor to gaslight the child into denying who they are and I do not and will never support that. I would support allowing parents to find counselors to aid their children to discover if they are truly trans or if they are going through body dysmorphia.
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Education and Public Safety
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S | O | NR |
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10.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 | ||
11.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 | ||
12.Parental Rights in School Healthcare Disclosure: Directing schools to inform parents of any mental, physical, or emotional health information and treatment that a child is receiving at school. |
X | ||
13.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:
Public funds should never go towards religious schools, we have a separation of church and state for a reason. We should not protect intolerance or straight up bigotry of people refusing to acknowledge a person as who they are. If a student is physically injured or is being bullied the school should inform the parents always, but if the student is getting info based on personal issues or possibly info about abuse then parents should not be advised as they may be the abuser. Parents can easily access curriculums in public schools now by asking their children's teachers, many schools already give parents the option to opt their children out of classes such as sex-ed but many other classes such as literature classes should not be opted out of as these are important classes that all students should take part in.
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Health and Welfare
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S | O | NR |
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14.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 | ||
15.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 | ||
16.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:
The above issues are healthcare issues, I believe that everyone should be able to make their own healthcare decisions in concert with their physicians.