Christine Shanahan McGovern
Election Information:
Party:
Republican
District:
18
Office:
State Senate
Contact Information:
www.mcgovernforillinoissenate.com
https://www.facebook.com/ChristineShanahanMcGovernforSenate18/
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 except when necessary to save the mother's life. |
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 Creative Professionals: Allowing creative professionals (photographer, baker, wedding vendor) to decline to participate in events or create messages that violate their moral or religious beliefs. |
X | ||
5.Conscience Rights for Faith-Based Organizations: Exempting faith-based organizations from regulations that cause them to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs. |
X | ||
6.Free Speech on Campus: Prohibiting speech zones or speech codes that restrict where students can discuss controversial or unpopular issues on college campuses. |
X | ||
7.Donor Privacy: Protecting confidential donor information so individuals are able to privately support charities of their choice without fear of being doxed. |
X |
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Family
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S | O | NR |
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8.Women's Sports: Preventing biological males who identify as female from competing in women's sports. |
X | ||
9.Gender Identity Counseling: Allowing parents to obtain professional counseling for children struggling with gender identity issues to help them reach their desired outcome. |
X | ||
10(a).Protected Class for Sexual Orientation: Adding “sexual orientation” as a protected class alongside race, religion, sex, age, and disability in nondiscrimination law. |
X | ||
10(b).Protected Class for Gender Identity: Adding “gender identity” as a protected class alongside race, religion, sex, age, and disability in nondiscrimination law. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
The uniqueness of a female is under attack. Why are the Liberal Loonies trying to devalue our girls and women? My daughters did pageants based on their confidence, public service, public speaking and the major requirement was that they were female. A transgender recently won a female pageant. What purpose does this agenda have? If the transgenders want to have a pageant let them. I find it deeply disturbing that universities are allowing the breakdown of our female athletes. These girls worked for many years to perfect their sport. It was a great sacrifice of their time and effort. Now these Progressive Morons want to remove the accomplishments of their hard work. Male and female anatomy are quite different, and they are obvious except to those who do not "understand science". Do what you want as an adult but when it comes to children keep the tampons in the girl's bathrooms and allow our female athletes to compete fairly.
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Education and Public Safety
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S | O | NR |
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11.School Choice: Allowing the use of tax credits, vouchers, and education savings accounts to cover the cost of children attending the school of their parents' choice, including private schools. |
X | ||
12.Parental Rights for Opt-Out: Giving parents the ability to opt their children out of school materials and lessons to which the parents object. |
X | ||
13.Critical Race Theory: Allowing schools to teach children that America's laws, policies, and society perpetuate systemic racism and that people are either oppressors or oppressed, or privileged or marginalized, based on their skin color. |
X | ||
14.Parental Rights for Transparency in Education: Giving parents access to the curriculum and materials their children are learning in school and allowing them to decide whether or not their children should be exposed to certain ideas. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
I have been a school choice supporter before this curriculum of CRT and the sexualization path was exposed. Let the tax dollars follow the children. Parents are not Domestic Terrorist. They are fighting for common sense and to keep the focus on the core subjects. There is purposeful division in the school now and that needs to stop. Teaching children that they are oppressed is telling them they will not achieve success.
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Health and Welfare
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S | O | NR |
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15.Medical Rights of Conscience: Allowing health care workers and providers the freedom to practice medicine in accordance with their personal beliefs and conscience. |
X | ||
16.Parental Rights for Healthcare Disclosure: Requiring schools to disclose to parents if the school is providing counseling or medical services to a child who desires to undergo “gender transition.” |
X | ||
17.Parental Rights for Mental Health Disclosure: Directing schools to inform parents of any mental, physical, or emotional health information and treatment that a child is receiving at school. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
I believe if the end of a heartbeat defines death, then the beginning of a heartbeat should define life. I believe that many use abortions as a form of birth control or an elective surgery. The value of life has lost its moral impact. Having had to do fertility to conceive my children I appreciate the gift of motherhood. However, I was told not to have any more children because of a risk of a ruptured uterus due to "windows". If a mother's life will end due to pregnancy that is an emergency surgery. There are enough not for profit organizations that devalue the life of an unborn baby, let them pay for it. After all some of these organizations value the unborn baby as a profit from a medical choice, I value that baby as the next doctor who can cure Alzheimer. These same companies are pushing the sexualization of our children. I certainly did not agree with Gov JB who thought a new Planned Parenthood was essential while our local businesses were forced to shut down.