Tina Burns
Election Information:
Party:
Democrat
District:
124
Office:
State Assembly
Contact Information:
https://www.burns4pa.com/
https://www.facebook.com/tinaburns4pa
https://twitter.com/Burns4PA
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 except when necessary to save the mother's life. |
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 Creative Professionals: Allowing creative professionals (photographer, baker, wedding vendor) to decline to participate in events or create messages that violate their moral or religious beliefs. |
X | ||
5.Conscience Rights for Faith-Based Organizations: Exempting faith-based organizations from regulations that cause them to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs. |
X | ||
6.Free Speech on Campus: Prohibiting speech zones or speech codes that restrict where students can discuss controversial or unpopular issues on college campuses. |
X | ||
7.Donor Privacy: Protecting confidential donor information so individuals are able to privately support charities of their choice without fear of being doxed. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
4. On a strictly individual professional level, every person should be free to select who they are willing to work for and with. 5. Public organizations, including faith-based, should not be allowed to discriminate. If individuals that participate within that organization would like to disengage from an activity or person they feel violates their religious beliefs they should do so, however, the organization itself that offers public services should not be allowed to discriminate, especially when the organization is a federally designated non-profit. If a religious organization wishes to exclude populations, then they need to reorganize as a private, membership only, for profit entity. 6. While there is a time and place for everything, common sense needs to prevail as opposed to prohibitions. 7. Support or Oppose really depends on what confidential donor information is being referred to. If referring to confidential healthcare donor information (i.e., donning of organs, etc.) than I would support protecting the information. If referring to donations to political campaigns or persuasion groups (lobby groups, dark money PACS), then I would strongly oppose protecting the information.
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Family
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S | O | NR |
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8.Women's Sports: Preventing biological males who identify as female from competing in women's sports. |
X | ||
9.Gender Identity Counseling: Allowing parents to obtain professional counseling for children struggling with gender identity issues to help them reach their desired outcome. |
X | ||
10(a).Protected Class for Sexual Orientation: Adding “sexual orientation” as a protected class alongside race, religion, sex, age, and disability in nondiscrimination law. |
X | ||
10(b).Protected Class for Gender Identity: Adding “gender identity” as a protected class alongside race, religion, sex, age, and disability in nondiscrimination law. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
8. Provided the individual has gone through transition for their identity. If so, the individual would be performing relatively similar to the gender they identify with as shown by science conducted on this topic. 9. Yes, parents should be able to obtain professional counseling for children struggling with any issue, not just gender identity. 10a. Everyone regardless of who they are needs to be treated equally. Since discrimination is prevalent for those in this group, then they too should be included and protected. 10b. Yes, see 10a explanation.
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Education and Public Safety
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S | O | NR |
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11.School Choice: Allowing the use of tax credits, vouchers, and education savings accounts to cover the cost of children attending the school of their parents' choice, including private schools. |
X | ||
12.Parental Rights for Opt-Out: Giving parents the ability to opt their children out of school materials and lessons to which the parents object. |
X | ||
13.Critical Race Theory: Allowing schools to teach children that America's laws, policies, and society perpetuate systemic racism and that people are either oppressors or oppressed, or privileged or marginalized, based on their skin color. |
X | ||
14.Parental Rights for Transparency in Education: Giving parents access to the curriculum and materials their children are learning in school and allowing them to decide whether or not their children should be exposed to certain ideas. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
11. Public funds need to be spent on public schools. Those that do not wish to send their children to public schools can do so at their own cost. Our schools have had extreme funding cuts at the state level under the prior republican governorship and to date with a republican majority in both chambers, our schools have remained extremely underfunded at the state level. Given this under funding, funding is significantly dependent on local government funding by way of property taxes. This dependence on local funding has resulted in disparity between SES school districts and lower SES districts have suffered the most. If vouchers are allowed, lower SES schools would further fall into deeper despair and the children in those areas are the ones that most need and depend on our public school system. 12. There may be some very limited instances were a parent should be able to opt a child out of a lesson, but overall, allowing a blanket ability to opt out of any and all materials and lessons that each Childs individual parent(s) would like is not something I would support. It would be too disruptive for both the child and all other children trying to learn. Additionally, public school teachers take their jobs very seriously and need freedom in their classrooms to teach, not only what parents think should be taught, but also topics of importance to prepare the students for life. We hire our teachers to teach, we need to allow them the ability to do their job. If there is a large amount of curriculum a parent is against, the parent may need to find an alternative form of education for their child. 13. The level to which this type of teaching would be assigned to is at a higher education level. At a higher educational level, it is necessary theory to explore and learn, as it does present a historical perspective of how and were our country was when many of our laws and policies were formed. Grades K-12 are not presented with this theory, thus it is not, nor should it be a point of concern for any K-12 parent. 14. I support giving parents access to seeing what materials their children will be learning, but I would not support removing those children from their class room on a regular basis for every topic the parent doesn't like. See response to 12.
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Health and Welfare
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S | O | NR |
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15.Medical Rights of Conscience: Allowing health care workers and providers the freedom to practice medicine in accordance with their personal beliefs and conscience. |
X | ||
16.Parental Rights for Healthcare Disclosure: Requiring schools to disclose to parents if the school is providing counseling or medical services to a child who desires to undergo “gender transition.” |
X | ||
17.Parental Rights for Mental Health Disclosure: Directing schools to inform parents of any mental, physical, or emotional health information and treatment that a child is receiving at school. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
Abortion is Healthcare and healthcare is a personal decision between a person, including women and their healthcare provider. If taxpayer dollars are funding healthcare organizations that do not provide abortions, then they should equally be provided to fund those healthcare organizations that do provide abortions. With proper regulation to prevent foul play, how a patient would like to handle their terminal illness is a healthcare decision between a patient and their physician, including ending the terminal illness permanently. We show this compassion and consideration for our pets and other animals that are not able to verbally communicate their own wishes, so why wouldn't we allow people who can communicate their wishes on their own personal healthcare?