Mary Beedle

To save the life of the mother, miscarriages, Rape, Incest, Mental Illness, personal circumstances due to Genetic malfunction, personal Circumstances with Birth Control failure

Neutral

In relationship with the doctor, the patient reports back to the Doctor the reactions and outcomes, but should not necessarily be required, esp. in very early weeks when 25% if all pregnancies end in natural miscarriages and generally involve little risk of hemorrhage or complications. The provider sets the expectations.

Agree

In the several cases that I have known about, it was a gentler way to go and avoided the known suffering that was to come.

Disagree

Planned Parenthood has provided STD testing free for men and women. Also in all states PP provides annual Breast & Cervical exams. Birth Control was provided by PP more that any other group at low cost. PP clinics, that I was familiar with in the states I lived, did not perform abortions but directed women to who provided them. I was told over many years that Federal dollars never went for abortions and that it was always the case. Young women need access to Birth Control without long waits.

Agree

Minimum wage should increase to provide a living wage. It should rise to meet the needs of housing, food, and essentials.

Yes

The environmental investments are increasingly gaining financially, but investment has to be tailored to make money not loose money. It is a transition arena both in the country and world. Investing Public Funds should be with consideration of the local population and get local considerations.

If they are burning down.

Neutral

If someone didn't want to serve me I probably go somewhere else. I do think there is less tolerance than is necessary. If I made a cake for same sex wedding or had to sew a button on or mend a shirt of a gay man, I think first of them as a human needing help. I had to sew a fellows head up that had lots of blood. I didn't think of not suturing him. If you fall down in the street and you are a Calvinist I would just leave you in the ditch. Is that where we are going with this?

No

In the past, religious schools were paid for by the parents, relatives, parishioners and religious groups. It appears that funds are not adequate in public schools so drives students to religious schools even though they are not affiliated. Segregation comes into play as well. Public Funds were to improve Public Education. We have low teacher pay and little to no social workers. This is a painful subject. I want good education for all and we need to raise the education standards for the future.

There will always be private options. I look at other countries and they have universal healthcare. This reduces the anxiety of many people and can prevent worsening conditions that cost more. I lean toward universal healthcare. But I think the medical system should change to make it function better. I certainly don't have all the answers but after 26 years as a Nurse Practitioner in Family Practice I have compassion on the families that worry about medical debt.

Well my sister had polio and polio was eradicated for a large part of the world. Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis are required. Vaccines and Masking I think can be required by any country, employer, school or reasonable group. Depends on circumstances.

Agree

Difficult time to answer this. I think the original plan was ill thought out. I don't like Netanyahu. I certainly do not have the solutions.

Disagree

I think the funding is on the precipice of being abused. Parents want better education for their children. The quality of the Public Schools in NC depend on Funding. It is not fair to underfund so many. Parent's should have the freedom to use any monitored schools but not by underfunding others.

Disagree

Neutral

Generally I agree but have seen situations with teenagers who are 16-17 whose parents are not mentally functional due to alcohol/ drugs. Providers should use common sense. I all 26 years this was not a big problem.

Agree

I do feel that the questions are asked oddly and can be used as a stepping step to slant the reader to a political or religious persuasion with out medical knowledge or clarification. Bodily mutilation can be earrings. Gender ideology? Most people have little idea the entire scope of the meaning. Abuse? What kind of abuse. Verbal, Physical, Spiritual. This is a big topic that can just make people be afraid of other people. Of course we should protect children.

Neutral

Depending on your belief system of God and ordained institutions, yes that has been the tradition. If those in the public do not believe in these institutions but would like the financial and practical functions of a marriage relationship afforded to traditional couples, then I accept the legal judgements. It does not affect the status of traditional couples. People want to be considered a family. Same sex couples have existed for Millenia and have always been part of the human condition.

Voting for someone because of their spiritual beliefs has become a capstone for some. For me my relationship with God has changed over the years. I was raised a Catholic and very devout. I studied different theologies and studied the Bible. I had time as a Seventh Day Adventist with more study of the Bible. No matter what a person studies, that spiritual connection should evolve. Religion has created division among even those who are Christians. I am more about deeds these day. More about caring as a human for humans and the planet that we are stewards of. I promote caring for our bodies as a temple. Food rather than chemicals. Vote for me because I can be a good steward. I can make sound decisions.

Strongly Disagree

I lived in States that had total mail in ballots for many years and everyone loved it.

Raised with the idea that black people are not capable of being as intelligent as white people is a bad idea. My parents decided that it was a bad idea. A couple of children in my Christian neighborhood could not play with me because my parents said prejudice was not what God had in mind. We are a white family that had dead birds thrown on our porch, gross phone calls, and we were in a safe white middle class place. Yes racism is painful for the society and fear causes societal demise.

Agree

Agree because our concepts about race, just as our social concepts about God and women's capabilities are evolving. We no longer chain people up; we allow women to vote and hold ownership of property. Discussing CRT with unknown viewers is silly in that it takes a lot of study even to understand what it encompasses. We all have biases. CRT is a theory, one of many social theories. Teaching about our past will not hurt. Teaching that we made mistakes and we are better now is good. Not divisive.

Neutral

I have little opinion as have never encountered the situation. Any trans women would go in a stall so I would never know.

None of these make sense. esp. C. Lots of new jobs are developing that increase our energy independence which is so important. Climate change is real and obvious to biologists, microbiologists, meteorologists, agriculture, even without the big fires and floods. working toward energy independence is important. Reducing methane and carbon emissions will crate better air and less medical problems even for those who don't believe in climate change. Cleaning up the "forever chemicals" will help.

Geepers this is long. Government creates a framework for a population to coexist with so sort of order. Some governments do this well and people are happy and some are bad and oppressive. We live in a fabulous free country. Not perfect but pretty good.

No. I did work in a few Federal Prisons examining the guards for Pulmonary function so they won't pass out or have a heart attack while wearing a large respirator.

NO

Lean Liberal

I personally am a minimalist. I am financially frugal. I care about being well and having others be well or be open to learning about it.

Neutral

Depends. Mental Health Domestic situations could use as special police force to do better with that.

Just have people be responsible to lock them up esp. around teenagers that are bullied, or your toddler or 4 year old. I think the AR15 types are not necessary and ruin the organs of anyone or animals that they hit. Talk to an ER Doctor, they hate them. Lock them is secure cases.