Margaret Flowers in 2014 Green Party Platform

On Abortion: Offer abortion services free to women at the poverty level

We endorse women's right to use contraception and, when they choose, to have an abortion. This right cannot be limited to women's age or marital status. Contraception and abortion must be included in all health insurance policies in the U.S., and any state government must be able to legally offer these services free of charge to women at the poverty level.

On Civil Rights: Recognize gay marriages & civil unions from abroad in visas

• We will pursue legislation against all forms of hate crimes, including those directed against people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender, and intersex. Offenders must pay compensation to the LGBTIQ people who have suffered violence and injustice.
• The Green Party will end all Federal military and civilian aid to national governments whose laws result in the imprisonment or otherwise bring harm to citizens and residents based on sexual orientation, or gender identity, characteristics, and expression.
• The Green Party will enact a policy that the U.S. Government recognize all international marriages and legal equivalents, such as civil unions, in processing visitor and immigration visas.
• The Green Party would end security surveillance and covert infiltration of organizations that promote equal rights on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

On Education: Replace No Child Left Behind with professional teachers

We recommend the following actions:
• Eliminate gross inequalities in school funding. Federal policy on education should act principally to provide equal access to a quality education.
• Oppose the administration of public schools by private, for-profit entities.
• Increase funding for after-school and daycare programs.
• Give K-12 classroom teachers professional status and salaries commensurate with advanced education, training and responsibility.
• Teach non-violent conflict resolution and humane education at all levels of education.
• Prohibit advertising to children in schools. Corporations should not be allowed to use the schools as vehicles for commercial advertising or corporate propaganda.
• Ban the sale of soda pop and junk food in schools. Junk food is defined as food or beverages that are relatively high in saturated or trans fat, added sugars or salt, and relatively low in vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber.
• Repeal the No Child Left Behind Act.

On Education: Negative income tax for guaranteed basic income

On Government Reform: No religious oaths for public office, juries, or citizenship

We call for:
• Ending discriminatory federal, state, and local laws against particular religious beliefs, and non-belief.
• The US Constitution states that there shall be no religious test for public office. This requirement should apply to oaths for holding public office at any level, employment at all government levels, oaths for juries and witnesses in courts, and the oath for citizenship.
• Prosecution of hate crimes based on religious affiliation or practice.
• Elimination of displays of religious symbols, monuments, or statements on government buildings, property, web sites, money, or documents.
• Restoration of the Pledge of Allegiance to its pre-1954 version, eliminating the politically motivated addition of "under God."
• Ending religiously based curricula in government-funded public schools.
• Ending the use of religion as a justification to deny children necessary medical care or subject them to physical and emotional abuse.

On Health Care: Thousands die each year when excluding from adequate care

• The Green Party supports single-payer universal health care and preventive care for all. We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege.
• Our current health care system lets tens of thousands of people die each year by excluding them from adequate care, while its exorbitant costs are crippling our economy. The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world without a national health care system.
• Under a universal, comprehensive, national single-payer health care system, the administrative waste of private insurance corporations would be redirected to patient care. In addition, people would gain the peace of mind in knowing that they have health care they need. No longer would people have to worry about the prospect of financial ruin if they become seriously ill, are laid off their jobs, or are injured in an accident.