Issue Position: Community & Public Health

Issue Position

I stand strongly for healthy communities, by ensuring we have vibrant community health programs and do what is necessary to strengthen preventative protections for all. I will:

Protect and expand access to affordable healthcare and social services for women, seniors, veterans, and all New Mexicans

Set up strong behavioral health services funding mental health and drug treatment programs, and focus more on treatment than on systematic encarceration

Fight for strong common sense gun laws like background checks, keeping guns out of the hands of domestic abusers, and "Gun Violence Restraining Order" laws that enable courts to to temporarily remove guns if family members or law enforcement believe that someone is a threat to themselves or our community (Download my Gun Safety Platform here.)

Support a woman's right to make her own healthcare decisions

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