POLICY ISSUES
This campaign launched March 11, 2025. Since the beginning, we’ve talked about taking a different path to achieve a different result. I intend to look at past, current, and future legislation through a lens of restore, reform, and repeal. What legislation has passed that negatively impacts our country and that needs to be repealed? What has been taken away that should be restored? And lastly, what in our political system needs to be reformed?
This isn’t your typical campaign, and this isn’t your typical issues section. Our intent wasn’t to tell people what to think, but rather to listen to their concerns. In response to what we heard, this is our plan to improve the lives of the people we seek to serve.
Reproductive Rights
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending nearly 50 years of precedent and taking away the federally protected right to privacy in reproductive decisions. This ruling gave power to the states to enact their own laws on reproduction. As a result, one in three women now live in states where abortion is not accessible. In the first few months after Roe was overturned, 18 states banned or severely restricted abortion. Today more states are working to pass additional bans, and some states have gone as far as including no exceptions even in cases of rape or incest.
I believe in the long-held precedent that a woman’s reproductive rights are protected by a constitutional right to privacy. What a woman chooses to do is a difficult, personal decision and should be made by her and her doctor.
Reproductive rights should be upheld and restored at the federal level.
