Candidate Name: Larry Liston
House/Senate: HD District #: 16

1. Public Funding of Family Planning Services
Do you support government funding for low-income women who otherwise might not be able to afford family planning services?

YES

Do you support reimbursement to Planned Parenthood, as well as to other contractors, for providing family planning services (not including abortion) to low-income women?

YES

Do you oppose any effort to bar Planned Parenthood from federal and state health care funding, including funds available as a result of health care reform legislation?

YES

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2. Provider and Patient Protection
Do you support enactment of laws and enforcement of existing laws that protect reproductive health care providers, their staff, patients, and families of all the above from violence, intimidation, and harassment?

YES

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3. Abortion Services and Private Medical Decision-Making
Do you support a woman's right to privacy, which protects access to abortion as outlined in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision?

NO

Do you oppose legislation that erodes or restricts a woman's access to abortion services including:

A. Mandatory waiting periods? NO

B. Mandatory, state-written biased counseling? NO

C. TRAP laws?

D. Conscience/refusal clauses?

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4. Fetal Personhood
Do you oppose legislation that establishes fetal personhood prior to viability?

NO

Do you oppose Amendment 62, this year's "definition of person" initiative, which would amend the Colorado Constitution to define "person," granting constitutional rights to "every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being?"

YES

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5. Contraceptive Equity
Do you support legislation to require pharmacists to fill all valid, legally prescribed medications?

NO

Do you support efforts to ensure equity in prescription insurance and contraceptive coverage?

NO

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6. Sexuality Education
Do you support the teaching of comprehensive health education programs, which include responsible, evidence-based sex education with information about both abstinence and contraception in public schools?

YES

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7. Confidential Health Services for Teens
Do you support confidentiality for minors seeking:

A. Family planning? YES

B. Sexually transmitted disease care? YES

C. Prenatal care? YES

D. Abortion services and care? NO

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8. Scientific and Medically Accurate Information
Do you oppose public policy that is based solely on ideology over science?

YES

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9. Choice
On the spectrum of individuals' right to personal, private medical decisions, how do you self-identify?

Pro-Choice:
Pro-Family Planning:
Anti-Choice:
Unsure¬:
Other: Pro-Life

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