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Strongly Favors topic 1: Abortion is a woman's right (10 points on Social scale)	Abortions should always be legal: Strongly Favors topic 1 Recommended by EMILY's List of pro-choice women: Favors topic 1
Strongly Favors topic 2: Require companies to hire more women & minorities (0 points on Economic scale)	Provide capital job development in minority communities: Favors topic 2 Take the "men only" sign off the White House door: Strongly Favors topic 2 NO on banning affirmative action hiring with federal funds: Strongly Favors topic 2 YES on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation: Strongly Favors topic 2 NO on ending special funding for minority & women-owned business: Strongly Favors topic 2 NO on prohibiting same-sex basic training: Favors topic 2 YES on setting aside 10% of highway funds for minorities & women: Favors topic 2
Strongly Favors topic 3: Sexual orientation protected by civil rights laws (10 points on Social scale)	Continue to fight for gay rights: Favors topic 3 GLBT right to privacy includes consensual gay sex: Strongly Favors topic 3 NO on prohibiting same-sex marriage: Strongly Favors topic 3 YES on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation: Strongly Favors topic 3
Strongly Opposes topic 4: Permit prayer in public schools (10 points on Social scale)	NO on requiring schools to allow voluntary prayer: Opposes topic 4 NO on $75M for abstinence education: Strongly Opposes topic 4
Strongly Favors topic 5: More federal funding for health coverage (0 points on Economic scale)	Private & public healthcare are not reconcilable: Strongly Favors topic 5 Pay for universal care with money already in system: Strongly Favors topic 5 Replace patchwork system with Medicare-modeled system: Strongly Favors topic 5 YES on medical savings acounts: Favors topic 5 NO on Medicare means-testing: Favors topic 5
Opposes topic 6: Privatize Social Security (2 points on Economic scale)	NO on deducting Social Security payments on income taxes: Opposes topic 6 YES on allowing Roth IRAs for retirees: Favors topic 6 NO on allowing personal retirement accounts: Opposes topic 6
Strongly Opposes topic 7: Parents choose schools via vouchers (0 points on Social scale)	More federal funds to rebuild our crumbling schools: Opposes topic 7 NO on school vouchers in DC: Strongly Opposes topic 7 NO on education savings accounts: Opposes topic 7
Strongly Opposes topic 8: Death Penalty (10 points on Social scale)	Executions are a revenge response: impose moratoriums: Strongly Opposes topic 8 NO on rejecting racial statistics in death penalty appeals: Opposes topic 8 NO on limiting death penalty appeals: Opposes topic 8
Strongly Opposes topic 9: Mandatory Three Strikes sentencing laws (10 points on Social scale)	Job skill program and drug treatment for inmates: Opposes topic 9 NO on mandatory prison terms for crimes involving firearms: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Strongly Opposes topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (0 points on Social scale)	Ban semi-automatics; more background checks & enforcement: Strongly Opposes topic 10 NO on maintaining current law: guns sold without trigger locks: Strongly Opposes topic 10
Strongly Opposes topic 11: Decrease overall taxation of the wealthy (0 points on Economic scale)	Trickle-down shrinks middle class & entrenches wealth: Opposes topic 11 Roll back the tax cut to create peace and prosperity: Strongly Opposes topic 11 NO on FY99 tax cuts: Strongly Opposes topic 11 NO on requiring super-majority for raising taxes: Opposes topic 11
Favors topic 12: Immigration helps our economy-encourage it (7 points on Economic scale)	Need to reform immigration policy to welcome them: Strongly Favors topic 12 More federal aid and services for immigrants: Strongly Favors topic 12 NO on limit welfare for immigrants: Strongly Favors topic 12 NO on visas for skilled workers: Opposes topic 12 NO on allowing more foreign workers into the U.S. for farm work: Opposes topic 12
Opposes topic 13: Support & expand free trade (2 points on Economic scale)	Free trade must be fair trade: Opposes topic 13 NO on Unknown roll call for 1997-292: Opposes topic 13 NO on renewing 'fast track' presidential trade authority: Opposes topic 13
Favors topic 14: Link human rights to trade with China (2 points on Social scale)	Human rights record should affect trading status: Favors topic 14
Opposes topic 15: More spending on armed forces (7 points on Economic scale)	Iraq war costs too much when Americans are suffering: Strongly Opposes topic 15 NO on 1996 Defense Appropriations: Opposes topic 15 YES on favoring 36 vetoed military projects: Strongly Favors topic 15
Favors topic 16: Reduce spending on missile defense (Star Wars) (2 points on Economic scale)	NO on considering deploying NMD, and amending ABM Treaty: Favors topic 16 NO on deploying missile defense as soon as possible: Favors topic 16
Favors topic 17: Seek UN approval for military action (2 points on Economic scale)	NO on limiting NATO expansion to only Poland, Hungary & Czech: Favors topic 17 YES on $17.9 billion to IMF: Favors topic 17
Favors topic 18: Reduce use of coal, oil, & nuclear energy (2 points on Economic scale)	Lessen our dependence on fossil fuels: Strongly Favors topic 18 Advance a worldwide environmental agenda: Favors topic 18 YES on do not require ethanol in gasoline: Opposes topic 18 YES on reducing funds for road-building in National Forests: Favors topic 18
Strongly Opposes topic 19: Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it (10 points on Social scale)	Decriminalize minor marijuana possession & medical marijuana: Strongly Opposes topic 19 NO on spending international development funds on drug control: Strongly Opposes topic 19
Opposes topic 20: Allow churches to provide welfare services (7 points on Social scale)	NO on welfare overhaul: Opposes topic 20 NO on allowing state welfare waivers: Opposes topic 20 YES on eliminating block grants for food stamps: Opposes topic 20 NO on welfare block grants: Opposes topic 20