Terrell A. Williams
Election Information:
Party:
Democrat
District:
9th District
Office:
State House or Assembly
Contact Information:
www.Terrell4DE.com
https://x.com/Terrell_4_DE9th
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:
Our republic was founded on the basis of transparency and open communication between government entities, private organizations, and the public. To put mechanisms in place to allow individuals, private corporations, or government to operate in the shadows and on the fringes of our laws and regulations, fundamentally goes against the principles of our democracy. Confidential donations to public charities can be made privately. However, donations made to political PACs and other organizations with the ability to influence policy and legislatures should be public information. Transparency is not the death of democracy, but its saving grace.
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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 believe our society has strayed too far away from allowing parents to raise their children with the autonomy that was given to previous generations. I believe parents have the inherent right to raise their children without the worry or fear of interference from outside agitators. Parents should have access, control, and say so over minor children until the child raises the age of majority, as long as the child is free from abuse, negligent, and emotional harm.
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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:
We are a democracy, which has a rich and diverse culture. Unfortunately, our country has some ugly moments in our history, do we not teach those moments because it is ugly? Do we whitewash history because it is uncomfortable and makes some parents fill uncomfortable? I believe teachers should have the autonomy to each an accurate portrayal of history free from the interference of parents and agitators.
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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:
I believe abortion is healthcare! I also believe in a woman's right to choose what is best for her body. Legislators do not have any business in the examination room with patients and medical practitioners. Again, I believe that abortion is healthcare and should be covered by tax payer's dollars, similar to any other medical procedures. It is important for patients with the help and instruction from medical practitioners To decide what medical procedures are vital and necessary for their treatment. Finally, I believe end of life care is a vitally important aspect of healthcare and individual care. These discussions are deeply private and intimate between the patient, family, and medical practitioners, not legislators. I support voluntary physician assisted medical discussions and treatment for terminally ill patients. I have confidence in the medical practitioners and patients to decide what is best for the individual, given the nature of the circumstances.