Bram Kleppner
Election Information:
Party:
Democrat
District:
Chittenden-13
Office:
State House or Assembly
Contact Information:
www.bramvt.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:
If a faith-based organization is providing a service to the community, I don't believe they should discriminate on the basis of potential clients' political or religious beliefs, unless such beliefs are clearly likely to be harmful to the child (such as religions that don't believe in medical care for sick children, etc). Everyone should be free from discrimination!
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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. The goal of counseling for a child struggling with gender identity should not be to help the child find comfort with his or her biological sex, it should be to help the child work their way to clarity on who they really are. 8. If a child is truly female, in spite of a male body, insisting on treating that child as male is as much a form of child abuse as forcing a male child to wear a dress.
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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:
11. I support schools' reporting the care a child is getting in school to the parents unless the school has reason to believe that such information will cause the parents to take action which would be harmful to the child. 12. If a school is teaching hate, then the answer is not to opt out, but to get the school to change what they're teaching. If they're teaching tolerance, love, and acceptance, then those are lessons every kid needs.
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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 believe that a women has and should have the right to terminate a pregnancy if she wishes until 24 weeks, and after that as well if it becomes clear that pregnancy and birth might be dangerous to the woman's health or life, or if the fetus has birth defects that would cause it to suffer significantly if carried to term. So yes, I support women's having the freedom to make these decisions on their own. I also believe that we have no right to interfere with an individual human's end-of-life decisions. I support terminally ill Americans' freedom to decide when and how they want to die.