Beth Farnham, of Adams County, is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House, 13th district, in south-central Pennsylvania, in the 2024 election. WPSU is interviewing candidates running for Congress in the 2024 election in our listening area.

Race for U.S. House, 13th District: Democrat Beth Farnham

Beth Farnham: I saw that the Dobbs decision had overturned Roe v. Wade back in spring of 2022, and I was horrified. This was going to mean that not only would I not have rights over my own body as I had had my whole life, but neither would any any women or girls I knew, including my own daughter.

Beth Farnham is from Adams County. She has a daughter.

Race for U.S. House, 13th District: Democrat Beth Farnham - WPSU

Beth Farnham: My question why I would run as I've only, as I've been a stay at home parent for the last 13 years, but I've volunteered a lot, and prior to that, I had put myself through college as a pharmacy technician, and that included working in a fertility pharmacy.

Beth Farnham: I worked as an administrative assistant for a scissor and boom lift company, and it turns out that one of America's leading boom lift companies is located, is headquartered in McConnellsburg, which is the county seat of Fulton County, which is also part of the 13th Congressional district.

Beth Farnham: And then, prior to having the children, I had been a credit analyst for Bank of America, a large financial institution of the United States. So I felt that I had a very global perspective.

Beth Farnham has been a stay-at-home parent. She previously worked as a pharmacy technician, including at a fertility pharmacy; as an administrative assistant for a scissor and boom lift company; and as a credit analyst for Bank of America.

Beth has been a stay-at-home parent. She previously worked as a pharmacy technician, including at a fertility pharmacy; as an administrative assistant for a scissor and boom lift company; and as a credit analyst for Bank of America.

Beth Farnham - Ballotpedia

Beth lost the 2024 election for the U.S. House Pennsylvania District 13.

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As of October 16, 2026, Beth Farnham’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Education

Economy

Beth Farnham: And I would have made reproductive freedom my greatest priority, but nothing else follows if we don't have that sacred right to vote. However, I do want to touch upon reproductive freedom. I do believe in enshrining into law reproductive freedom, such as access to safe and legal abortion, birth control, in vitro fertilization, also known as IVF, as well as gender affirming care. You know, only when we can create the families we choose are we truly free.

Supports federal protections for abortion, birth control, in vitro fertilization, and gender-affirming care.

- Supports federal protections for abortion, birth control, in vitro fertilization, and gender-affirming care.

Healthcare

Beth Farnham: Well, we have to start with democracy and ensuring our sacred right to vote. So expanding the Voting Rights Act, ensuring that there are multiple opportunities for voting, expanding absentee ballot access, as well as early voting in person. I believe these are important to that we never come this perilously close to losing our democracy to someone who promises a dictatorship on the first day, should he be reelected to the presidency and a bloodbath if he is not.

* Pass term limits for justices of the Supreme Court and age limits for US Senators and US Representatives.

Our Precious Democracy – Beth Farnham for Congress

* Increase the number of US Representatives so they effectively represent 500 thousand constituents, instead of 765 thousand constituents.

Additionally, to avoid situations of incompetence, or sudden death due to advanced age in office, I advocate the age limit of 75 years on members of Congress. I further advocate an increase of US Representatives so that they each represent 500 thousand constituents instead of 765 thousand constituents.

* Hold in-person town halls in the district.

Supports expanding the Voting Rights Act, absentee-ballot access, and in-person early voting.

Proposes term limits for Supreme Court justices and age limits for U.S. senators and representatives.

Advocates expanding the U.S. House so each representative serves about 500,000 constituents.

Plans to hold in-person town halls in the district.

- Supports expanding the Voting Rights Act, absentee-ballot access, and in-person early voting.
- Proposes term limits for Supreme Court justices and age limits for U.S. senators and representatives.
- Advocates expanding the U.S. House so each representative serves about 500,000 constituents.
- Plans to hold in-person town halls in the district.

Voting & Elections

Beth Farnham: I'm sure there are some some middle-of-the-road issues. You know, certainly when it comes to providing for veterans and our nation's security, I believe that we should maintain a powerful presence in the world. But I need those Republicans to also work across the aisle and stop in their devotion, their slavish devotion to convicted felon Trump.

Supports maintaining a powerful U.S. presence internationally.

Supports a powerful U.S. presence internationally.

- Supports a powerful U.S. presence internationally.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Energy & the Environment

Unique to the United States of America, gun violence is the number one killer of children because laws to:

* safely store firearms (Ethan’s Law)
* report lost or stolen firearms,
* require universal background checks,
* restrict ownership of firearms to those individuals at an elevated risk of harming themselves or others,
don’t exist at the federal level.

Since the National Rifle Association (NRA) has raised millions of dollars to lobby legislators who would vote against such common sense regulations, thousands of children die brutal, blood spattered deaths every year.

Elect Beth Farnham to help craft such sensible legislation as listed above in order to prevent the senseless killing of US children, and other Americans, by firearms.

Gun Safety – Beth Farnham for Congress

Calls for federal firearm safe-storage requirements, lost-or-stolen reporting, universal background checks, and risk-based firearm restrictions.

- Calls for federal firearm safe-storage requirements, lost-or-stolen reporting, universal background checks, and risk-based firearm restrictions.

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