Elizabeth Farnham's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
On The Ballot: Running, Democratic for U.S. House (PA) - District 13
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Issue Positions
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- "Congress MUST enshrine reproductive freedom into law to protect these basic rights for all Americans." (bethfarnhamforcongress.com)
- "We own our bodies. Because we have agency over our bodies, we make healthcare decisions like: abortion, birth control, disease prevention, nutrition, exercise, and gender-affirming surgery, with trusted medical professionals. No one has the right to stand between us and these fundamental decisions that do not negatively impact public health, nor does anyone have the right to such private medical information, much less weaponize it against us like Republican attorneys general have decided to do in 19 states." (bethfarnhamforcongress.com)
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- "We cannot risk the care of our precious Democracy to fall once more into the hands of those who would take it from us. Please vote for Beth Farnham for US Representative of Pennsylvaniaâs 13th District as I will do everything in my power to protect your right to vote and I will continue the necessary operation of our government for all of my constituents, and our fellow Americans, no matter our party affiliation, because I love my country.' (bethfarnhamforcongress.com)
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- "Since the National Rifle Association (NRA) has raised millions of dollars to lobby legislators who would vote against such common sense regulations, thousands of children die brutal, blood spattered deaths every year. Elect Beth Farnham to help craft such sensible legislation as listed above in order to prevent the senseless killing of US children, and other Americans, by firearms." (bethfarnhamforcongress.com)
- "Congress must strengthen the Affordable Care Act and reinstate its original parameters so that Americans across the country can access a consistent network of the excellent and affordable care it sought to provide before Republicans sabotaged it." (bethfarnhamforcongress.com)
- "Every American deserves excellent, affordable, and accessible healthcare. For the newborn to the elderly, for those suffering pre-existing conditions to the newly-diagnosed, for those simply needing annual physicals to those requiring hospital stays, healthcare is a must that advances survival and increases quality of life. In every other developed country, citizens have such universal healthcare, but in America we do not. Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act have attempted to fill gaps of iniquity, but those safety nets are frequently targeted by Republicans who falsely claim to offer alternatives, but offer nothing of substance." (bethfarnhamforcongress.com)
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- "Researchers at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimated that if undocumented immigrants had been granted legal status, they might have paid $51 million more in Pennsylvania state and local taxes in 2017 alone. Instead of using taxpayer money to find ways to keep undocumented immigrants out of our country, Congress should legislate realistic routes to legal status. This may be accomplished by Congress amending our Immigration Act of 1965 by expanding DACA and Temporary Protection Status work authorization and protection from deportation through programs emulating those of Maryland and Utah, for example. If I am elected, I will work on strengthening ways for undocumented immigrants, those hard workers on whose labor we in Pennsylvania rely for basic services, and DACA recipients, who were brought here as minors, to pursue legal status and add even more to our economy and our Social Security and Medicare programs." (bethfarnhamforcongress.com)
- "In other words, undocumented immigrants and DACA recipients in Pennsylvania paid hundreds of millions of dollars in federal and state taxes in 2018 alone, helping our economy and boosting our Social Security and Medicare programs. Since then, estimates of taxes paid by undocumented immigrants and DACA recipients have only grown larger, but to swallow the dehumanizing and Republican lie of "Illegals donât pay taxes" is to be ignorant of this truth." (bethfarnhamforcongress.com)
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