Stephanie O Burgess

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Taxpayer dollars should be used in accordance with applicable law and appropriate safeguards, but organizations that provide preventive care, family planning, reproductive healthcare, screenings, and other essential health services should remain eligible for public funding for those lawful services. Women (particularly those with limited healthcare options) should not lose access to needed care because of a political disagreement over one service a provider offers.

A woman should have the freedom to make deeply personal decisions about her own life, health, and body in consultation with her healthcare provider, without unnecessary government interference.

Disagree

Human life has inherent dignity and deserves respect and protection, but I do not believe government should impose an absolute legal standard from conception until natural death. These deeply personal decisions can involve complex questions of health, faith, family, and individual liberty, and our laws should protect life while also respecting personal autonomy and medical judgment.

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Human embryos deserve thoughtful and responsible consideration, but I do not support an absolute legal standard that could interfere with IVF or treat an embryo as legally equivalent to a born person. Decisions involving fertility treatment and embryo disposition are deeply personal and medically complex and should remain primarily with patients, families, and their physicians, subject to appropriate ethical and medical safeguards.

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I support appropriate medical standards and safeguards for all medications, including those used in reproductive healthcare. However, I do not support using federal law to broadly restrict access to lawful reproductive healthcare. These deeply personal decisions should be made by women in consultation with their healthcare providers, based on their individual medical circumstances and within the law.

I support a responsible approach to raising wages that considers housing, childcare, transportation, and other everyday costs and ensures that economic growth creates greater opportunity for the people doing the work.

Agree

Free enterprise and private property rights are important foundations of a strong economy. As a small-business owner and property owner, I understand the value of entrepreneurship, ownership, and investment. I also believe those rights come with responsibilities. A productive economy requires fair rules, responsible development, and accountability so that economic growth creates opportunity while respecting neighboring property owners, taxpayers, and the communities in which businesses operate.

(1) Requiring measurable community returns for tax incentives and economic-development investments; (2) Calculating the full infrastructure and public-service costs of major projects before committing taxpayer dollars; (3) Strengthening auditing, oversight, and public reporting for state contracts and expenditures; (4) Eliminating unnecessary duplication through better state-local coordination; and (5) regularly evaluating programs to ensure taxpayer dollars are producing results.

To me, separation of church and state means government should neither establish a religion nor prevent people from freely practicing their faith. My faith is an important part of who I am and shapes the values I bring to public service, but holding public office means representing everyone—people of every faith and people of no faith. Government should protect religious freedom while ensuring that no one is favored or excluded because of what they believe.

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Religious and moral convictions deserve protections must be balanced with the rights of others. No one should be forced to abandon sincerely held beliefs simply because they enter the workplace or marketplace. At the same time, businesses serving the public should comply with generally applicable laws and should not use religious belief as a blanket justification for denying people equal access to goods and services. Religious liberty and equal treatment are both fundamental principles.

B) I believe affordable healthcare should be accessible to everyone, and people should have choices in how they obtain their coverage. A strong public option can provide access and affordability for those who need or choose it, while individuals who prefer private insurance should retain that option. The goal should be a healthcare system where quality care is accessible and families are not priced out of necessary treatment.

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I support using reliable, anonymized public-health data to understand healthcare costs, identify trends, and make better policy decisions. However, I do not support maintaining a government database that unnecessarily identifies individuals by their medical conditions. Personal health information deserves strong privacy protections. Government can assess the economic burden of disease without creating an intrusive registry of individual patients.

Agree

The U.S. must take seriously threats to our national security, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and economic interests, regardless of where those threats originate. We should protect American infrastructure, technology, businesses, and sensitive information from foreign interference or exploitation. At the same time, our response should be strategic, fact-based, and focused on protecting American interests rather than treating people of Chinese heritage or nationality with suspicion.

The United States’ relationship with Israel is important, as are our relationships with allies and partners throughout the region. That relationship should support security, diplomacy, and the pursuit of lasting peace while recognizing the human rights, safety, and dignity of both Israelis and Palestinians. I believe American leadership should encourage peaceful solutions, protect innocent civilians, oppose terrorism and antisemitism, and remain grounded in our democratic values and respect

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I believe immigration policy should be lawful, humane, and practical. Local law enforcement must be able to protect public safety while building enough trust for victims and witnesses to report crimes without fear. We should respect the law and due process while treating every person with dignity and pursuing sensible immigration reform at the federal level.

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States and local communities should have a strong voice in their schools, but strengthening local control does not require eliminating the U.S. Department of Education. We should reduce unnecessary bureaucracy while preserving federal resources, student protections, special-education support, and safeguards that help ensure every child has access to a quality education, regardless of ZIP code.

Neutral

American education should remain independent of foreign government control or undue influence. Foreign governments should not be permitted to use funding to shape curriculum, research, institutional decisions, or access sensitive information. At the same time, legitimate academic exchanges and research partnerships should remain possible when they are transparent, properly disclosed, and protect academic independence.

Agree

Parents and guardians are essential partners in their children’s health, education, and development and deserve transparency, meaningful involvement, and a voice in important decisions. Those rights also carry responsibilities and should be balanced with protecting a child’s safety, legal rights, well-being, and access to an appropriate education and necessary care.

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Child abuse is a serious legal determination that should be based on evidence of actual abuse or neglect, not applied categorically to complex questions involving a child’s identity or healthcare. Families facing these circumstances should be able to work with qualified medical and mental-health professionals while keeping the child’s safety and well-being at the center of those decisions.

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My faith is deeply important to me, and I respect the right of religious traditions to define marriage according to their beliefs. Civil law, however, must provide equal protection to all citizens. Government should neither dictate religious doctrine nor deny legally married couples equal treatment under the law because their marriage differs from another person’s religious beliefs.

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Any proposal to expand gambling in Georgia should be evaluated carefully based on its economic benefits, social costs, regulatory structure, and impact on families and communities. I would not support expansion simply to generate additional revenue. Any proposal must include strong consumer protections, responsible-gaming safeguards, transparency, and a clear public benefit.

My faith in God is foundational to who I am and how I serve. It teaches me grace, compassion, humility, honesty, and accountability, and reminds me that every person has dignity and worth. I believe faith is demonstrated through how we treat people, especially those who are vulnerable, overlooked, or without a voice. Public service, to me, means showing up, keeping my word, serving others, and being accountable when I fall short.

Neutral

Every eligible citizen should be able to exercise the right to vote without unnecessary barriers. Election security and voter access are not competing goals. I support reliable methods of verifying voter eligibility and identity, but those requirements should be reasonable, accessible, and provide alternatives when a voter does not have photo identification. The goal should be secure elections in which every eligible vote can be cast and counted.

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I believe we must honestly confront the lasting effects of discrimination and policies that denied generations of Americans equal opportunity to build wealth. I support addressing documented inequities through policies that expand opportunity, homeownership, education, economic mobility, and access to capital. Any reparative policy should be carefully designed around demonstrated harm and effective remedies rather than race alone.

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Disagree with a one-size-fits-all rule. I believe everyone deserves dignity and equal treatment, while recognizing legitimate concerns about privacy, safety, and fairness. Sports, schools, shelters, correctional facilities, and other settings present different circumstances and should not all be governed by a single blanket policy. Decisions should be lawful, practical, evidence-based, and designed to protect the rights, safety, and dignity of everyone involved.

Agree

Climate change poses real risks to Coastal Georgia, including stronger storms, flooding, extreme heat, and increasing strain on infrastructure and natural resources. We should act responsibly by strengthening resilient infrastructure, protecting our coast and waterways, expanding affordable clean energy and efficiency, and ensuring that working families do not bear a disproportionate share of the costs.

Reliability requires a diversified energy portfolio. Georgia should expand renewables like solar, invest in storage and efficiency, modernize the grid, and maintain dependable generation to meet growing demand without shifting costs to families.

Lean Liberal

My views are generally center-left, but I approach each issue on its merits rather than through an ideological label. I believe in individual rights and equal opportunity, strong public schools and services, reproductive freedom, environmental stewardship, public safety, responsible economic growth, small businesses, fiscal accountability, and government that is transparent, practical, and responsive to the people it serves.

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The goal should be justice, accountability, and safer communities. That means holding people accountable when they cause harm, treating victims with dignity, and enforcing the law fairly, while also investing in prevention, mental health and substance-use treatment, youth intervention, rehabilitation, and reentry. A strong system should reduce crime and repeat offenses—not simply punish people and send them back into communities without a path forward.

Agree

Government has a responsibility to protect children from sexual exploitation online while respecting constitutional rights and privacy. That includes holding predators accountable, strengthening law enforcement’s ability to investigate exploitation, requiring responsible safeguards from technology platforms, supporting victims, and giving parents better tools to protect their children online.

Agree

The U.S. Constitution and laws enacted under it must remain the governing legal authority. No religious legal system (Sharia law or otherwise) should supersede American law or constitutional rights. At the same time, the First Amendment protects every person’s right to practice their faith freely, including Muslims, so long as those practices comply with the law.

I support responsible gun ownership while recognizing government’s duty to protect public safety. We should enforce existing laws, keep firearms out of the hands of violent offenders and others legally prohibited from possessing them, and pursue evidence-based measures that address gun violence while respecting the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens. Prevention and accountability must work together.