The following questionnaire was adapted from the Gun Rights Political Questionnaire by David Codrea.
Please help me out by suggesting any potential rewording of any of the questions. I'd like to keep it at just 10 questions, so it is as pointed and specific as possible, in addition to not providing any excuses for candidates who don't fill it out, because it's too long. Finally, I'm trying to cover the biggest points of controversy, not every point, for the same reasons mentioned earlier.
1. Do you believe that the Constitution is the "supreme law of the land" and that both the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights acknowledge our birthrights?
2. If so, should these rights be proactively protected from infringement by all levels of government, including city, county and state?
3. Please give some examples of abortion laws or exceptions in prolife/personhood laws you consider constitutional.
4. Please give some examples of abortion laws or exceptions in prolife/personhood laws you consider unconstitutional.
5. Does the right to life include the personhood of every child yet to be born, from the moment of biological inception?
6. Do you believe that a child conceived in rape is no less a person than any other American and has the same right to life, and will you use the prestige of elected office to publicly promote that right?
7. Do you support or oppose the right to life of the mother, the child or any dependent person when there are any health complications? Why? (I'm still not satisfied with the wording of this question, but it's the best I can do right now.)
8. Do you support or oppose any restrictions on the right to life or the personhood of every child yet to be born, from the moment of biological inception? Why?
9. What specific abortion laws or exceptions in prolife/personhood laws will you work to get repealed?
10. If elected, will you back your words of support for prolife rights up with consistent actions? How? Some suggestions from Tues. night's call, which I've already tried to implement, as best I can:
Change the word fertilization to biological inception.
Change the word rape to something easier to agree with, such as child conceived by rape, is no less than another. In other words, try to make it obviously easy to agree with.
Change the wording to include those who are dependent on others, young children, Terry Schiavo, etc., not just the unborn.
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