The NWLC Action Fund aims to inform the public about candidates’ positions on issues affecting gender justice. We encourage voters to get informed, learn where their candidates stand, and to encourage candidates to adopt policy positions that support women and girls.
Candidate Comparisons
Jen
Jordan
vs.
Chris
Carr
Protect and strengthen abortion and contraception access
Fund affordable and accessible child care
Strengthen paid family and medical leave
Protect women, especially women of color, and others from discrimination and harassment in the workplace
Raise the minimum wage
Keep all students—including all LGBTQI+ children and children of color—safe from discrimination and harassment
Prevent censorship in school curricula
Advance gun safety measures that keep schools free from gun violence
Expand voting access
Build diverse courts that work for everyone
Strengthen and expand access to maternal health care
NWLC Action Fund does not endorse candidates. These voter guides are an educational resource for the public and are not intended to be an endorsement of any candidate or political party. Candidates’ positions on the issues are determined using recorded votes for and against legislation; statements from interviews, press appearances, press releases and candidate events; social media posts from verified accounts; and endorsements from organizations and associations.
Evidences/Citations
Abortion
Jen Jordan
- Codify the right to abortion in-state and support the creation of a nationwide right that stops abortion bans and guarantees that the right and access to abortion does not depend on where a person lives.
- Jordan told Axios she supports the policy originally set by Roe v. Wade, with a first trimester right to an abortion protected. “I believe this framework is appropriate and should remain the law of the land with appropriate exceptions for rape, incest, fetal anomalies, and the life of the mother,” she said.
- Spoke of her own struggles with miscarriages in remarks about the end of Roe
- Ensure that people’s access to health care is free from stigma, barriers, and restrictions, including abortion care, contraceptives, and maternal health care.
- She gave an impassioned speech in dissent to HB481, calling it “cruel, punitive and oppressive”
- She has said that if elected, she will not use taxpayer dollars to enforce Georgia’s heartbeat bill
- Make sure quality pregnancy supports are accessible, affordable, and culturally competent for all – including protections and supports, like doula access, are available that promote the health outcomes of Georgia’s pregnant people, especially Black women.
- When testifying against abortion restrictions in the state, Jordan said “50 percent of Georgia counties have no OB/GYN doctors and 17 rural hospitals have closed within the past seven years”
- Safeguard and expand access to contraception.
- Endorsed by NARAL Pro-Choice America
- Tweeted in support of protecting Griswold v. Connecticut
Family Economic Security
Jen Jordan
- Make millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes
- Research into this candidate has yielded no statements indicating support or opposition.
- Help families with the rising cost of child care by investing in high-quality, affordable child care.
- Research into this candidate has yielded no statements indicating support or opposition
- Establish universal paid family and medical leave.
- In response to new paid leave plans for full-time employees of the Georgia House and Senate, she said “It’s a positive step, so I’ll take it. But I definitely think we can take it a step further.”
- Co-sponsored SB55 “to provide for the creation of a program to compensate in part for the wage loss sustained by any individual who is unable to work due to such individual’s own sickness or injury, the sickness or injury of a family member, or the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a new child”
- Protect women, especially women of color, and others from discrimination and harassment in the workplace.
- Research into this candidate has yielded no statements indicating support or opposition
- Along with colleagues, Jordan filed harassment complaints against a member of the Georgia Assembly to combat harassment and a culture of toxic masculinity
- Research into this candidate has yielded no statements indicating support or opposition
- Pay workers fairly, including ensuring equal pay for all and raising the minimum wage to at least $15/hour for all working people.
- Cosponsored Georgia SB24 to raise the state minimum wage
- Georgia Win List says on their website that “Jen will fight to raise Georgia’s minimum wage to at least $10.10 an hour and restore local control by giving cities like Atlanta the right to an even higher rate when voters agree.”
Education
Jen Jordan
- Support students’ ability to learn and be themselves by keeping them safe from discrimination and harassment in school.
- Research into this candidate has yielded no statements indicating support or opposition
- Oppose efforts to fuel divisions in our communities by vilifying and excluding transgender students.
- Voted against SB 435, which makes it “unlawful for Ga public school students or teams to compete against a Ga public school that permits a person of one gender to participate in an athletic program that is designated for persons of opposite gender”
- Oppose censorship of schools’ ability to teach truth, including about race and gender and how they have been used to divide us.
- Research into this candidate has yielded no statements indicating support or opposition
- Safeguard students’ ability to live full, dignified lives free from gun violence.
- Sponsored SB150 in 2019 “to prohibit persons convicted of misdemeanor crimes of family violence from receiving, possessing, or transporting a firearm and to prohibit persons subject to family violence protective orders from receiving, possessing, or transporting a firearm”
- Endorsed by Everytown/Moms Demand Action
- Ensure full funding that meets every school’s needs – including schools building safer environments by prioritizing COVID safety measures.
- Jen Jordan was the only Democrat to vote in favor of SB514 to ban mask mandates in schools
Democracy
Jen Jordan
- Protect and expand access to the ballot and restore the Voting Rights Act.
- As reported by the Atlanta Daily World, Jordan’s platform includes five voting rights pillars: establishing a Voting Rights Division in the Attorney General’s office, investigating and prosecuting cases of voter intimidation and suppression, working to protect and bolster the Voting Rights Act, protecting election workers and prioritizing the fundamental rights of Georgians – including the constitutional right to vote
- Ensure all voters have equal access to the ballot box and their votes are counted fairly, including expanded early voting days, language access protections for Limited English Proficient (LEP) voters, and a district map that empowers all voters.
- Jordan’s campaign website names “Defend the Voting Rights of all Georgians” as a priority and says “I will fight voter suppression and make sure every lawful vote is counted.”
- Reshape the makeup of the judiciary by working with federal lawmakers to nominate and confirm judges with a strong record of supporting gender and racial justice issues and who affirmatively declare they will uphold equality, opportunity for all, individual liberty, and the freedom to make personal decisions about our bodies and relationships.
- Research into this candidate has yielded no statements indicating support or opposition
Education
Chris Carr
- Support students’ ability to learn and be themselves by keeping them safe from discrimination and harassment in school.
- On July 7, 2021, his office issued a statement condemning the June 15, 2021 EEOC guidance that the Bostock v. Clayton County decision means Title XII protections apply to sexual orientation and transgender identity
- Oppose efforts to fuel divisions in our communities by vilifying and excluding transgender students.
- Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is joining counterparts in 19 other states to sue the Biden administration over federal anti-discrimination protections for transgender students
- Oppose censorship of schools’ ability to teach truth, including about race and gender and how they have been used to divide us.
- Signed a letter from a multi-state coalition of 20 attorneys general in urging the Biden Administration to reconsider educational proposals aimed at imposing the teaching of critical race theory
- Safeguard students’ ability to live full, dignified lives free from gun violence
- Carr joined a 20-state coalition in arguing against the Biden administration’s proposed regulation of firearm parts.
- Ensure full funding that meets every school’s needs – including schools building safer environments by prioritizing COVID safety measures.
- Has joined lawsuits against vaccine and mask mandates
- In response to the decision to overturn mask mandates, Carr said, “We are very pleased that the court has issued a preliminary injunction, and we will continue to stand up for the rule of law until this latest unconstitutional mandate has been stopped permanently”
- Oppose discriminatory discipline policies in schools, including increased policing of students
- Carr has not commented on discipline policies in schools.
Democracy
Chris Carr
- Protect and expand access to the ballot and restore the Voting Rights Act.
- Carr is defending Georgia’s new voting restrictions against challenges from the Biden administration.
- Ensure all voters have equal access to the ballot box and their votes are counted fairly, including expanded early voting days, language access protections for Limited English Proficient (LEP) voters, and a district map that empowers all voters.
- Carr asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuit against Georgia SB 202; the bill adds new provisions on absentee ballot drop boxes, voter ID.
- Reshape the makeup of the judiciary by working with federal lawmakers to nominate and confirm judges with a strong record of supporting gender and racial justice issues and who affirmatively declare they will uphold equality, opportunity for all, individual liberty, and the freedom to make personal decisions about our bodies and relationships.
- Research into this candidate has yielded no statements indicating support or opposition.
- Carr supported the nomination of Andrew Pinson to the Georgia Supreme Court, “a rising young star in the conservative legal world.”
- Research into this candidate has yielded no statements indicating support or opposition.