Deanna Alexander
Election Information:
Party:
Independent
District:
12
Office:
State House or Assembly
Contact Information:
www.DeannaAlexander.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.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:
For question 5 regarding faith-based organizations and regulations that cause them to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs - I think this is a grey area and must be taken on a case by case basis. I would use the ideas from the Bible about working on Sundays as an example - yes there is a rule about that - but it has only certain applications and is it not more important to save a person on the side of the road and "work" on the Sabbath, than to keep the law and not love one another? Sometimes "sincerely held religious beliefs" can be a very complicated area to apply law to when everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
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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 |
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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:
On Question 12, regarding directing schools to inform parent os any mental, physical, or emotional health information and treatment that a child is receiving at school; I am mostly in agreement. However I would also support exemptions for things like counseling students who are being abused by their parents. Having rules that always require schools to inform parents of all treatment or counseling could cause youth who are victims of sexual or physical violence at home to be afraid to talk to adults about it because of the automatic notification to their parents.
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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:
Regarding funding for organizations that provide abortion - I think that this area can become grey quickly. For example, our regional medical center and Children's Hospital may technically provide abortions and are technically supported by taxpayer dollars because they are non-profit organizations. I think the key is that taxpayer dollars should not be used to help fund abortions, and if organizations that do provide abortion are supported, the funds must be fully segregated to show that they do not fund abortions and do not displace other funding to become available to support abortions.