Andy Bowline
Election Information:
Party:
Democrat
District:
31
Office:
State Senate
Contact Information:
https://andycantwin.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:
On 4: Government should never deny a license over what someone believes. What licensure can require is that everyone meet the same professional standards in what they do. Beliefs are protected; conduct on the job follows the rules of the profession. On 5: Every organization is free to practice its faith, and the First Amendment already guarantees that. But an agency taking taxpayer dollars to perform a public service, like placing foster children, serves every qualified family. Public money, public rules. On 6: No bank or insurer should close someone's account over their politics or faith. That is true whether the customer is a church, a gun shop, or an environmental group.
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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:
On 7: As a dad, an easy yes. Platforms built addiction into their products and aimed them at kids. Parental controls and design limits are overdue. On 8 (a): Parents can already get counseling for their child, and they should. What this describes is different: therapy where the conclusion is decided before the child walks in. Every major medical association warns that approach hurts kids. Real counseling explores, it doesn't railroad. On 8 (b): Custody belongs with judges weighing one child's whole welfare, case by case, not with a statute that pre-decides one factor and ties a court's hands in genuine abuse cases. No loving home should lose a child over a disagreement, and I'm not aware of any North Carolina court doing that.
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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:
On 9: I'm a public school parent. These programs now send tax dollars at any income level to schools with no testing requirements and no obligation to admit your child. Taxpayers deserve to know what they're buying. On 10: No North Carolina law or school district compels anyone's pronoun use, so this protects against something that isn't happening. I won't support legislation whose real effect is state permission to single out specific kids. On 11: Parents should know what's happening with their kids, and current law already requires notification in nearly every case. But "any information, no exceptions" removes a counselor's judgment in the rare case where the parent is the danger the child is reporting. I answered the same way on minor consent: the law has to catch the kids who fall through. On 12: Yes. I'm for transparency in every institution I'd serve in, and parents reviewing curriculum is already the law. Opt-outs for objectionable material, also yes.
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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:
On 1: A "heartbeat" law is a ban at six weeks, before many women know they're pregnant. These decisions belong to women, families, and doctors, not the legislature. On 2: Federal and state law already prohibit tax dollars from paying for abortion. This funding buys cancer screenings, contraception, and STI testing, often where no other clinic exists. On 3: I support the model used in ten-plus states: terminal diagnosis, two physicians, repeated requests, the patient acting for themselves. Whether the end comes with hospice, faith, or this option belongs to the family in that room.