I am 5 months pregnant with our first child. It has been an incredible struggle - emotionally, physically, and financially to get here. One of the many burdens we have endured as a result of not being able to get married is benefit from tax breaks for medical expenses as a married couple could. My partner is the breadwinner, but we could not claim "my" expenses on her taxes. It is not fair.
We live in the state of VA - one of the worst in the nation for LGBT families. Despite the thousands of dollars we have spent securing documents to try to protect our family (again, something a married couple would not have to do) - we are scared to death of what could happen because someone, somewhere will not recognize our family and our rights. The new Marshall Newman amendment is downright frightening, discriminatory, and clearly unconstitutional. Why are such laws even allowed to pass?
I want the candidates to take a long serious look at ALL the ways these laws HURT FAMILIES and I want to know what steps they will take to give MY FAMILY the SAME protections as any other family.
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