Christopher Proia
Election Information:
Party:
Democrat
District:
33
Office:
State Senate
Contact Information:
Christopher-Proia.com
Facebook: Friends of Christopher Proia
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:
In the privacy of your own homes and churches, you should be allowed to do almost anything you want, as long as it doesn't hurt any other person against their will, and as long as animals get treated humanely. But if you are looking for federal accreditation or dollars, you should be as secular as possible in order to also respect other people's beliefs. It's ok to believe whatever you want. It's not ok to force those beliefs on other people.
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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:
Again this is freedom of one's own body. We see gender fluidity throughout the natural world, it's obvious that humans would also experience that. I support expand mental health access, but it must be about supporting what the individual wants. Not their parents or their preachers. Allowing our fellow humans to fully thrive as who they are without having to fear or advocate for their safety will actually progress humanity, rather than stifle it like the religious leaders did in the dark ages.
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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:
School Choice has been an abject failure every time it's been tried. Secular federal dollars can no longer be wasted in private, unregulated schools. Our children need to understand how to work with all children regardless of their beliefs. And while I support number 12, I do so with the caveat that if parental abuse is suspected, I feel like exceptions should be made. And parents already have the option to opt out of any school activities they object to. You have the freedom to raise your own kids how you want to (without abusing them), but you don't have the right to raise other people's children.
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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:
Conservatives claim to love freedom so much, but feel it's necessary to strip away bodily autonomy. If we do not have the right to choose what happens to our own bodies and everything inside of our bodies, then we do not have freedom. The myths that conservatives push surrounding abortion are simply that... Myths. If they really wanted to lower abortion rates, they would advocate for proper sexual education classes and not mythological abstinence propaganda which has been proven ineffective.