Jennifer Balkcom

Nationalist

Republican

N/A

North Carolina

Current Position: State House Representative NC-117

Running For: House Representative - District 11

Policy Positions

For deregulation and cutting or eliminating the state's income tax to address inflation

Against expanding North Carolina's Medicaid program
For repealing laws allowing children to consent to treatment for STDs, pregnancy, mental health, and substance abuse without parental consent (Parents' Medical Bill of Rights)
For allowing parents to opt children out of immunizations for 'conscientious objection' reasons

For allowing parents to sue schools over alleged violations of the state's Parents' Bill of Rights, which prohibits teaching gender identity in grades K-4 and requires parental notification if a child wants to use a different name or pronoun in school
Against teaching about race in schools
For providing education vouchers to charter schools
For requiring public school students to share sleeping quarters only with members of their biological sex (with limited exceptions), requiring school districts to make book lists public and allow parents to block children from borrowing certain books, and prohibiting state funds from supporting gender-affirming care for prisoners

For preserving North Carolina farmland from commercial, industrial, and residential over-development
For prohibiting banks from denying services to agriculture producers based on greenhouse gas emissions or use of fossil fuel-derived products or machinery

Against abortion rights; supported a bill banning abortions past 12 weeks gestation with pre-procedure counseling and a 72-hour waiting period, and voted to override the governor's veto of this bill (with exceptions for rape/incest up to 20 weeks and life-limiting fetal anomalies up to 24 weeks)
For banning transgender female athletes from competing on girls' sports teams in schools

For banning adversarial foreign governments from acquiring or leasing agricultural land in North Carolina
For requiring criminal illegal aliens to serve full sentences before deportation
For requiring immigration status checks before providing state benefits and social services, including health, commerce, housing, university, and unemployment services