The Maine Republican Party platform recognizes parents and guardians as the primary decision-makers for their minor children’s medical care. Republican lawmakers have also sought to restore parental consent for gender-related hormone treatment. In 2025, Republican Sen. David Haggan sponsored LD 380, which included repeal of Maine’s provision allowing certain minors to consent to that treatment without parental approval.

Taken together, these positions support a likely Yes to strengthening parental consent, notification, and access to medical information. They do not establish that every Republican would support eliminating every existing exception.

The Republican platform expressly opposes school personnel withholding information about student identity changes from parents or guardians.

In 2025, Republican Rep. Sheila Lyman sponsored LD 1002, which would have required schools to use a student’s birth-certificate name and gender unless a parent authorized otherwise. All 12 Republican senators voting on the motion to reject the bill opposed rejection.

Although that proposal addressed parental authorization rather than notification alone, the platform and legislative record point strongly toward Yes.

Republican lawmakers have opposed medical gender-transition interventions for minors and sought changes to Maine’s existing laws. Sen. David Haggan’s testimony supporting LD 380 expressed opposition to children receiving these treatments. The Republican platform also opposes public funding to promote or encourage gender-transition practices for adolescents and younger children.

These positions point toward a likely Yes. However, opposition to public funding or treatment without parental consent does not, by itself, establish support for prohibiting all such treatment. This answer is less definitive than the party’s position on parental notification or girls’ sports.

The recent legislative record is particularly clear. In June 2025, the Senate rejected LD 1134, which would have restricted female sports and facilities based on biological sex, by a 21–14 vote. The 14 Republican senators voted against the motion to reject the bill.

The Republican platform also supports restricting participation on school athletic teams designated for one biological sex to students of that sex. Together, the platform and voting record point strongly toward Yes.

Republican legislative leaders publicly opposed LD 1619, the 2023 expansion of Maine’s abortion law. Their opposition is consistent with the Republican platform’s commitment to protecting human life from conception.

Restoring the protections that existed before the 2023 expansion would generally align with that direction. Although individual Republicans may differ on abortion policy, the party’s stated position and opposition to the expansion support a likely Yes.

The Maine Republican Party platform explicitly opposes the use of taxpayer funds for abortion.

Ending public funding for elective abortions would therefore align directly with the party’s stated position. This provides a strong basis for assigning a likely Yes.

The Republican platform’s commitment to protecting human life from conception to natural death points toward opposition to physician-assisted suicide.

There is Republican dissent. Republican Sen. Marianne Moore supported the majority committee report on LD 613, the 2025 legislation expanding access under Maine’s Death with Dignity Act.

The platform supports a likely Yes to repeal, but this is a party-level inference rather than a position established uniformly across Republican lawmakers.

The Republican platform supports the free exercise of religion and protections against compelled participation in activities that conflict with religious convictions.

Republican lawmakers have also pursued restoration of religious vaccination exemptions. Rep. Gary Drinkwater publicly advocated restoring those exemptions and described legislation he introduced toward that goal.

These stated positions and legislative efforts support a likely Yes to the religious protections contemplated by this question.

The Republican platform explicitly supports reducing taxes, regulations, and mandates that burden Maine workers, families, and businesses.

Republican legislative leaders have also publicly advocated lower income-tax rates. In a September 2025 Senate Republican discussion of tax policy, Sen. Bruce Bickford proposed gradually reducing those rates to improve Maine’s competitiveness.

One specific policy consistent with this position would be gradually reducing Maine’s individual income-tax rates. This is an example drawn from Republican policy proposals, not a proposal supplied by the individual candidate.

Republican lawmakers have repeatedly advocated work requirements for able-bodied adults receiving public benefits. During the 2025 budget negotiations, Republican leaders sought work requirements for able-bodied, childless MaineCare recipients.

The Senate Republican caucus has also publicly supported work, volunteer, or job-training requirements as part of welfare reform. The party’s stated priorities and legislative efforts point strongly toward Yes.

Republican officials have supported stronger enforcement against illegal marijuana operations. However, support for closing illegal grows does not necessarily establish support for significantly increasing regulation of lawful recreational and medical marijuana businesses.

Because this question combines broader regulation with stronger enforcement, the available record does not provide a sufficiently clear basis for assigning a general Republican Yes or No. An individual candidate’s statements or voting record would provide a stronger basis for answering.

Gambling policy does not break cleanly along party lines, so this answer is less definitive than several others.

Most House Republicans opposed enactment of LD 1164, the 2025 legislation authorizing casino-style online gambling. Twelve of the 14 Republican senators also opposed accepting its initial favorable committee report.

Several Republicans supported the legislation, including House Republican leader Billy Bob Faulkingham. The overall Republican voting record points toward opposition to further expansion and provides a basis for a likely Yes. Support for repealing the law, however, remains an inference rather than a commitment established by those votes.