Darryl! Moch
Election Information:
Party:
Green
District:
Not Provided
Office:
State Senate
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 |
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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:
I do not think that there is any objection to parents getting counseling however, it is unethical to seek counseling that is blind or one sided which does not allow the young person agency over their lives and choices. Needless to say, people struggling with gender questions is really more about being loved and accepted more than the challenge of gender identity itself. The counseling should also be to help the parents understand the issues and conditions and find ways to love and support their child regardless of the child's disposition.
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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:
I think these are deeply challenging questions. There needs to be an education-family partnership; however, education is designed to explore and expose youth to the world around them and to teach them how to live in the world with others with dignity and respect. Education is not and has not been there to decide for people what they will believe or how to behave. Education does not take the place of what the family teaches and believes but education needs to be free to do exactly that serve as a source to educate that is coupled with the teaching and values infusion that comes from families. Let us remember that the education, medical, mental health, and other social service supports youth get come from professionals with standards and ethical guidelines so we need to allow those professionals to assess and treat as needed; especially because there are many instances of abuse and neglect that can go unmonitored or checked if schools are required to inform parents; however, the ethical guidelines do not allow for entities to withhold life threatening issues or concerns so the real issue is youth getting support as they mature in ways they need to from professionals our tax dollars pay for and we need to place the value and trust in those professionals.
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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:
Fundamentally, the issue around terminating a pregnancy cannot be easily wrapped up in simple time or age markers. The decision regarding the health and issues of the fetus, health of the mother, and the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy are matters of health (medicine/science), heart, conscience, and morality which are best left to the woman and her medical providers, family, and supports. Therefore, I would support legislation that made the possibilities clear and if conditions need to be crafted they should be done in consultation with women and the medical community; in the end the choice must be left to the woman to choose what will happen with her body. What we need spend more time are on are prevention and education efforts; so that the largest demographic of women (almost 60%) who exercise the right to terminate a pregnancy are in their twenties and where most terminations happened (over 93%) withing the first 13 weeks of a pregnancy (out of the average 40 week to term pregnancy) to prevent and avoid unwanted pregnancies and women who are still in their developmental gestation can avoid making such choices that can severely impact their lives. Particularly, we need educate men in both prevention and education so the can be full participants in the decisions to conceive and father children and to be more responsible in sexual encounters to avoid rapes, abuses of power, and the "sport" of womanizing which can lead to trauma and unwanted pregnancies. The crime should also be about men who father children and walk away. There should be companion legislation to address what men do with their bodies and how that plays on and impacts women's bodies and choices. Secondarily, terminally ill patients should be able to make their transition with dignity, saving themselves the physical and mental anguish as well as the families the mental, and financial trauma that can impact the families of long term loved one's care who have debilitating illnesses that causes suffering in the terminally ill person and the family.