2014 State Questionnaire
THE NATURE OF PRO-LIFE ISSUES
1. Direct threats to human life include first of
all abortion, which takes the lives of well over
a million US children annually; embryonic stem
cell harvesting; euthanasia; and cloning.
Additional threats to human life include
poverty, capital punishment, racism, war,
nuclear arms proliferation and exploitation.
Since each and every human being is unique and
important, one's personhood or worth should not
be arbitrarily determined by another's choice.
No one exists solely as a means to someone
else's happiness. The choices we make, as
individuals and as a society, must be weighed in
light of their impact on human life and dignity.
Do you acknowledge both the breadth of pro life
issues, and the primacy of some of those issues,
namely abortion, embryonic stem cell harvesting,
euthanasia, and cloning?
Yes
ABORTION 2. Do you believe that a unique
human life begins at conception?
YES
If not, when? ___ 3 mths
___ 6 mths ___ 9 mths
___ 1 yr ___ 18 yrs?
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3.
The 14th Amendment states "nor shall any
state deprive any person of life, liberty or
property without due process of law; nor deny to
any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws." The Supreme Court in
Roe v. Wade, 1973, stated that "if this
suggestion of personhood is established, the
appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the
fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed
specifically by the [14th] Amendment." The Court
regrettably concluded though that "we need not
resolve the difficult question of when life
begins. When those trained in the respective
disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and
theology are unable to arrive at any consensus,
the judiciary, at this point in the development
of man's knowledge, is not in a position to
speculate as to the answer."
Do you believe that the State has a
compelling interest in protecting human life
beginning at conception?
Yes
4.
Is taking the life of a pre-born child through
abortion ever morally
permissible?
Check all that apply:
_____ No, it's never permissible
__x___ Yes, to save mother's life
_____ Yes, in cases of rape or incest
____ Yes, for physical deformity
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_____ Yes, for gender
_____ Yes, for race
_____ Yes, to punish spouse
_____ Yes, it's always permissible
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EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS AND CLONING 5. Do
you oppose embryonic stem cell research or human
cloning, whether publically or privately funded?
YES
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN ABORTION
6. Peer reviewed studies have shown that
parental involvement laws reduce the occurrence
of risky sex in teens, and more than 30 states
currently have some form of them. Either
the teen refrains from engaging in sex or is
more careful before having sex. These laws
help teen mothers and fathers get the support
and guidance they need from parents in this
important decision. Not having them risks
parental estrangement or alienation from the
child when in the greatest need and denies the
dignity of the family. Minors already must
have parental approval for even the most minor
types of medical procedures or medications and
should also for the complex procedure of
abortion. Without parental
involvement, a minor impregnated by an adult
often times is pressured into having an abortion
so as to conceal the fact that the adult is
guilty of statutory rape.
Will you promote/support parental involvement
laws (with judicial override) for minors when
seeking an abortion?
YES I testified in Olympia on behalf of a
bill that would provide parental notification
with judicial override this last session!
MEDICAL CONSCIENCE CLAUSES
7. "The
trend toward accepting the termination of some
human lives as a normal part of medicine is
accelerating ... Courts, policymakers, media
leaders - even the elites of organized medicine
- increasingly assert that patient rights and
respect for patients’ choices should trump the
consciences of medical professionals.
Indeed, the time may soon arrive when doctors,
nurses, and pharmacists will be compelled to
take, or be complicit in the taking of, human
life, regardless of their strong religious or
moral objections thereto." (Westlie
J. Smith, 2009).
Should doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other
medical professionals be granted the right to
refuse participation in the provision of medical
services that violate the person's moral,
ethical or religious beliefs?
YES, no law can trump God’s laws period.
Religious and ethical beliefs must be protected.
PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE
8.
Washington State Initiative 1000 which was
passed in 2008, legalized Physician Assisted
Suicide (PAS) by allowing doctors to prescribe
lethal doses of barbiturates to certain
patients. An objection to this sanctioning
of suicide is that some vulnerable persons, such
as those who are feeble, depressed, mentally
ill, or handicapped, will likely experience
coercion to end their lives. For them a
right to die, already protected in the Natural
Death Act, (RCW
70.122), may become a duty to die. The
American Medical Association (policy
H-140.952) as well as the Washington State
Medical Association (2007
Resolution A-7) oppose PAS. The AMA
stated that "physician assisted suicide is
fundamentally inconsistent with the physician's
professional role." The initiative uses
vague language that enable doctors "acting in
good faith" to assist mentally ill or depressed
patients to commit suicide, while protecting
doctors from civil and criminal lawsuits.
Health care insurers can cut costs by providing
prescriptions for suicide. Will society's
sanction of suicide have unintended
consequences? Sponsor and former governor
Booth Gardner says that this is only a “first
step” in legalizing assisted suicide for anyone
who wants it. When society fails to
protect vulnerable people in their troubles, but
instead offers them the violence of suicide, has
not society abandoned them? Do
you oppose physician assisted suicide?
I cannot condone the taking of life by any means
under these circumstances. It is our
responsibility to help and nurture the
vulnerable, weak, and ill. God will decide when
their time to pass on is.
MARRIAGE PRESERVATION
9.
Children develop best within the context of a
biologically related family. This is a
scientifically proven fact which the
Washington State Supreme Court referenced
when in 2006, it ruled on the state's 1998
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The court
determined that the state's limitation of
marriage to heterosexual couples "is
constitutional because the legislature was
entitled to believe that limiting marriage to
opposite-sex couples furthers ... the well-being
of children by encouraging families where
children are reared in homes headed by the
children’s biological parents." In
concurrence,
Justice James Johnson wrote "The unique and
binary biological nature of marriage and its
exclusive link with procreation and responsible
child rearing has defined the institution [of
marriage in law]."
In order to affirm and protect children’s rights
and the primacy of those rights over adults’
aspirations for novel family forms, do you
oppose laws that change the definition of
marriage to include homosexual and polygamous
relationships?
I completely
disagreed with the law which is now already in
effect that was passed in 2012. It
made a mockery of marriage when it defined an
unequal yoking of the individuals who did not
actually even file a form or request a marriage
formally. Now we have what is in my opinion a
mess.
PUBLIC SCHOOL SEX EDUCATION
10. The Washington State Legislature in 2007
passed
ESSB 5297 requiring school districts to
teach "scientifically accurate" (aka
comprehensive) sex education, if they teach sex
ed at all. The typical comprehensive sex
education program spends as little as 5% of the
time teaching abstinence principles (Zogby
3/27/07), instead spending significantly
more time teaching students how to put condoms
on models of male genitalia and promoting
alternative forms of sexual activity called
outercourse, which may include showering
together and mutual masturbation as effective
ways to avoid pregnancy and disease. In
contrast, an emphasis on abstinence means
teaching students about building healthy
relationships and bolstering self worth and
self-control.
Given that ESSB 5297 allows school districts a
wide range in how the law is applied, will you
work to maximize sex education that is
wholesome, not dehumanizing and truly safe?
YES I do not believe we need to teach people how
to have sex mankind has been accomplishing this
for thousands of years without a classroom. We
do need to teach health including the human body
and its development but the act of sex itself is
in my opinion not the education I want
accomplished in the classrooms.
DEATH PENALTY
11. The death penalty in the
United States
should:
__x___ not be used
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be used about the same
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be used less
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be used more
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GAMING
12. A proposed casino off I-5 near
Ridgefield
is projected to be one of the largest in the
nation. What is your position on the
building of this casino? The latest news
can be found
here on the Citizens Against Reservation
Shopping blog.
I have none at this time.
QUALIFICATIONS AND COMMENTS
13. Please state your qualifications for office
such as professional, educational, family and
community accomplishments. You may also
add any any further comments regarding the
relationship of your candidacy to respect life
issues.
Three separate college degrees. Owned three
different businesses in the past. My husband and
I care for both my Father and my Mother here in
our home as well as I have had custody of a
mentally ill sister since 1986. Have worked with
numerous charities over the last 25+ years. I am
a candidate who has attended so many meetings
locally and in Olympia testifying at
hearings to protect the rights of citizens.
14. Do you have a campaign website?
YES
What is the address?
www.votecarolyn.us
WEBSITE POSTING PERMISSION
15. May Life Pac post your survey response on
its website?
Yes
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