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Policy positions

While Virginia Republicans take positions on a wide variety of issues, some of the noteworthy ones include:

• Abortion - "Protecting and securing the 'life, liberty, and property' of Mississippians begins first with guarding the life of the unborn child. Our policies should honor the sanctity of innocent human life." Governor Haley Barbour voted for Mississippi Initiative 26 in November 2011. Initiative #26 would amend the Mississippi Constitution to define the word “person” or “persons”, as those terms are used in Article III of the state constitution, to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof.
• Education - "Our instructors must have the freedom to teach, our students must have the opportunity to learn, and our policies should focus on the classroom – not the boardroom."
• Energy Policy - "Natural resources can both be utilized and protected. This is the balance our environmental policy must seek."
• Voting Rights - In January 2009, Republican Senator Joesph Filligane put forward Mississippi Initiative 27 which would amend the Mississippi Constitution to require voters to submit a government issued photo identification before being allowed to vote.
• Private Property - Republican party members supported Mississippi Initiative 31 on the topic of eminent domain. Initiative #31 would amend the Mississippi Constitution to prohibit state and local government from taking private property by eminent domain and then conveying it to other persons or private businesses for a period of 10 years after acquisition.