Melva Petez - Freedom Voter Guide

Party:

Republican

District:

Not Provided

Office:

State House or Assembly

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Survey Responses:

S = Support
O = Oppose
NR = No Response

Life	S	O	NR
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

First Amendment	S	O	NR
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:

I support policies that prohibit individuals and organizations that seek to undermine our nation’s security, promote violent extremism, or work to replace our constitutional system with any ideology that threatens the rights and freedoms guaranteed to every American. Those who actively seek to harm our country or advocate for the erosion of our constitutional values should not receive government-issued licenses, professional certifications, or other privileges that enable those efforts. Our financial and regulatory systems should never be used to facilitate activities that threaten our national security or the freedoms, including religious liberty that define the United States.

Family	S	O	NR
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

Education	S	O	NR
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:

Our public schools need to return back to the core subjects and focused on what matters most: teaching history, math, science, English, and the skills our children need to succeed in life. Parents send their children to school to receive a quality education, not to be distracted by political or ideological agendas. Every student deserves a classroom that prioritizes academic excellence, critical thinking, and preparation for the future. It’s time to get back to the fundamentals, empower parents, and keep the focus on education.

Health and Welfare	S	O	NR
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:

Men belong in men’s bathrooms and locker rooms. Women belong in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms. These private spaces exist to protect privacy, dignity, and safety for everyone. Every person should be treated with respect, and reasonable accommodations can be made when needed. But those accommodations should not come at the expense of the privacy and rights of women, girls, or the comfort of families. Our children deserve to grow up focused on learning, not navigating political or ideological agendas in places where they should feel safe. Parents, not government or school systems, should have the primary role in guiding their children’s values. Government should never undermine the role of a parent.