Connie Jo Henry
Kansas State Representative
District 37
Kansas State Representative District 37 Issues
Kansas State Representative District 37 faces critical decisions about healthcare, education, and personal freedoms, and Connie Jo Henry offers a clear, principled voice for the community. As a longtime healthcare professional and advocate for parental rights, she brings firsthand experience to the issues shaping Wyandotte County and the broader district. Her commitment to protecting individual choice, improving educational outcomes, and strengthening local representation reflects the values and priorities of Kansas State Representative District 37.
Healthcare: Pro-Choice
The Right To Refuse Healthcare
Access to healthcare should never be denied or hindered by legislation. The right to refuse healthcare should never be denied or hindered by legislation either. Once legislation gets involved in healthcare decisions, where will the line stop?
My Body, My Choice
The government does not have the right to make you take a vaccine. It is your body not theirs; you have the right to make that choice.
Who Is Responsible For The Choice?
The person or entity who makes the choice is responsible for the outcomes of that choice. The companies that were pushing the vaccines during COVID were not held responsible for the health problems and deaths they caused. Nor did those companies reimburse, pay damages, or do anything for the people who were adversely affected by taking their vaccine. If you are not held responsible for the outcome then you do not have the right to force someone to make the choice.
The Problem With Vaccines
The contents in many vaccines include mercury, aluminum, and stem cells (originated from aborted babies). These ingredients are causing adverse side effects in the people that receive the vaccines. Mercury and Aluminum are put in vaccines as preservatives to give them a longer shelf life. However, if you break a thermometer that has mercury in it you need a hazmat team to clean up the mercury spill. It is poisonous. So, why inject that into your body with a vaccine?
When Government Is Involved In Healthcare
Government funded healthcare always produces higher expenses in health care and lower quality service. See the Veterans Hospital. It is a known fact that the VA hospital is not as good as private Hospitals. I know through experience. I worked in the VA and also in private hospitals. It would be better to give all the veterans an insurance card so all the veterans can go and see who they want and keep the government out of their health care. That would save a lot of money.
What happened with Obamacare? The cost of healthcare went up (drastically), not down. The quality of care plummeted. Socialized medicine always sounds good in theory but never works in practice. For example, the healthcare in Canada is socialized. It is now so difficult to get medical care (even an appointment to see the doctor), that if people can afford it, they come here to the USA because it can take years in Canada to get an appointment.
Conclusion
If your healthcare is harming you it is not healthcare.
Helpful Resources
- Use of Human Fetal Tissue in research
- The 50-year history of abortion and oncology in The Cancer Letter archives
- Vaccine ingredients: Fetal cells
- NIH ends support for most human fetal-tissue research – dismaying some scientists
- Ethics and policy in embryonic stem cell research
- Fetal Tissue Research: A Weapon and a Casualty in the War Against Abortion
- Mercury in infants given vaccines containing thiomersal
- RFK Jr urges world to follow US’s lead on mercury in vaccines
- Mercury, vaccines, and autism: one controversy, three histories.
- Neurotoxic effects of combined exposures to aluminum and mercury in early life (infancy)
Reproductive Rights: Pro-Life
The Right To Reproduce, Not The Right To Kill
As a woman and a healthcare professional, I will always support access to healthcare and to provide life and health, not death. The cornerstone of the medical ethics moto is "primum non nocere" (do no harm). Access to healthcare should never be denied or hindered by legislation. You have the right to reproduce, you do not, however, have the right to kill. In Kansas, in the year 2024, nineteen thousand eight hundred eleven (19,811) babies were killed by abortions.
Not Your Body, Not Your Choice
A child in its mother’s womb is alive and can be killed. Terminating a pregnancy is not only harming a living human being but also taking its life. This goes against the practice of medicine. A baby in the womb is not part of the mother’s body. It is not her body; it is a totally different body.
The Double Standard In The Law
There is a double standard in the law. If pregnant woman is seeking an abortion, they don’t call it a baby, the call it reproductive tissue. They don’t even give it a name. They don’t want to call it a baby. However, if a woman that is pregnant is killed (auto accident, homicide, etc.) the perpetrator is charged with two murders, the mother and the baby.
A Limited Right To Choose
The government justly limits your right to choose in many ways. You do not have the right to choose to steal, or murder, etc.
- You do have the right to decide for yourself if you want to take a vaccine or not.
- You do not, however, have the right to kill someone.
Conclusion
If your reproductive healthcare is killing someone it is not healthcare.
Helpful Resources
Education: Religious Liberty
I am a product of public schools. I firmly believe that every student should have the opportunity to either advance their education in higher education or have access to trade training in order to have a successful employment in their future. However, Wyandotte County is near the bottom of test scores. There needs to be a plan on how to improve those. Low test scores limit opportunities and choices that you have. It can limit access to higher education and good choices among those universities.
Parents should have control over the curriculum that is taught to the students. The school should be under subjection to the parents, not the parents to the school. It should be illegal for school staff, teachers, or administration to withhold from the childs parents any information regarding their child.
- Remove SEL (Social, Emotional, Learning) from state standards.
- Remove DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) from curriculum and professional development.
- Make sure that CRT (Critical Race Theory) is not included in the school’s curriculum.
Student Religious Liberty Bill of Rights
(a) Every student enrolled in the district shall have the right to:
- Exercise their faith freely on school grounds and at school events, provided such expression is orderly and does not compromise safety.
- Voluntarily participate in or decline participation in any religious activity without coercion.
- Be free from discrimination or academic penalty based on their sincerely held religious beliefs or their identity as a person of faith.
- Engage in student-led prayer and religious gatherings, including the use of school facilities, audio-visual equipment, and communication channels on an equal basis with non-religious student groups.
- Receive guidance and support from school employees or community volunteers who wish to offer prayer or spiritual encouragement, provided such interactions are consensual.
- Incorporate religious perspectives into their schoolwork, assignments, and projects, which shall be graded according to neutral academic standards rather than the religious content therein.
- Display religious symbols or scripture in their personal attire, locker, or designated personal space without restriction.
- Access a curriculum that acknowledges the historical and foundational role of faith in society, ensuring that the academic study of religion is not erased or treated with hostility.
(b) This section shall be construed to protect:
- The right of school employees to live out their faith, including the display of religious symbols in their workspaces and the right to pray with colleagues or students on a voluntary basis.
- The provision of reasonable accommodations for religious holidays, dietary needs, and traditional modest dress or grooming standards.
- The right of parents to ensure their children’s education remains consistent with their moral and religious upbringing, free from state-sponsored ideologies that contradict their faith.
Accountability and Protection
- Each school board shall establish a transparent grievance process for families to report instances of religious "viewpoint discrimination" or the suppression of a student's First Amendment rights.
- Families shall have the right to legal recourse if a student’s right to religious expression is infringed upon by the district, including the recovery of legal fees.
- Whistleblower protections shall be guaranteed for any school employee who reports the suppression of religious liberty within the district.