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Life — Protecting Preborn Human Life✗ OpposesThe statementDo you support legislation that protects preborn human life from abortion, including prohibiting taxpayer funding, and rejecting abortion as a right in the Delaware State Constitution?Our researchDefended constitutional protection for abortion access and reproductive decision-making following the Dobbs decision. Source: https://www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sen-coons-in-hearing-on-dobbs-decision-what-other-fundamental-rights-might-be-at-risk/
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Life — Abortion Industry Accountability✗ OpposesThe statementDo you support legislation that holds the abortion industry accountable and liable for medical malpractice, negligence in providing informed consent, and removing the safeguards meant to protect women?Our researchCo-sponsored the Women's Health Protection Act of 2023 and voted to advance the measure in 2022. Voted against advancing the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Sources: https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/118/s/BILLSTATUS-118s701.xml | https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00170.htm | https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00011.htm
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Life — Protection from Assisted Suicide– No position foundThe statementDo you oppose legalized assisted suicide and attempts to expand it?
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Parental Rights in the Delaware Constitution– No position foundThe statementDo you support amending the Delaware Constitution to explicitly protect the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children?
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Protecting Minors from Irreversible Medical Interventions✗ OpposesThe statementDo you support holding medical providers legally accountable and liable for performing experimental, permanent, or irreversible medical interventions on minors that interrupt and pause puberty, introduce cross sex hormones, and amputate body parts?Our researchQ5 asks about making providers legally liable for puberty-blocking and cross-sex hormone interventions on minors; Coons states in the first person that minors should be able to access gender-affirming hormone therapy and that the decision belongs to the patient, parents and doctors rather than the state. Source: https://www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-coons-statement-on-united-states-v-skrmetti/
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Children’s Right to Their Biological Mother and Father– No position foundThe statementDo you support legislation that protects the fundamental rights of children to know and be known by their biological mother and father, prohibits changing a child’s sex on their birth certificate, and protects family biological connection between parents and children?
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No Sexually Explicit Material in Schools– No position foundThe statementDo you oppose policies that embed sexually explicit material and comprehensive sexuality frameworks into school libraries and public school curricula, particularly when they conflict with obscenity laws, parental rights, or religious beliefs?
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Fairness and Safety in Women’s Sports– No position foundThe statementDo you support legislation that preserves sex-based protections in athletics to ensure fairness, safety, and equal opportunity for female athletes?
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Religious Freedom and Conscience Protection– No position foundThe statementDo you support protecting individuals, churches, schools, and faith-based ministries from government penalties when operating according to sincerely held religious beliefs regarding sexuality, marriage, and human life?
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Free Speech and Public Advocacy✓ SupportsThe statementDo you support ensuring Delaware law clearly protects free speech, religious expression, and public advocacy — while limiting criminal penalties only to physical violence, threats, or force?Our researchOn the Senate floor in February 2026, Coons condemned labelling protesters as domestic terrorists and 'reclassifying dissent as something punishable by law,' and in June 2026 he argued at length that defending the Constitution means defending religious freedom. Sources: https://www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-releases/excerpts-senator-coons-warns-that-trump-administrations-unchecked-use-of-government-power-could-threaten-the-foundation-of-democracy-in-senate-floor-speech/ | https://www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-releases/remarks-senator-coons-delivers-closing-remarks-at-center-for-american-progress-event-on-religious-liberty/




























































































