I read about that bill that required better conditions for abortion clinics. I just checked her campaign site for a list of her views on important issues. That site doesn’t tell her views about any issues.
You’re correct, Senger is purposely silent on the issues. I agree that she should discuss at least some issues in her website, even though she may want to downplay her positions on social issues if they would hurt her in the general election. I’d rather have that 40.6% Romney district elect her because of her opposition to Obamacare, support for education, etc. and then have her vote to defund Planned Parenthood and the like than have Foster turn the election into a referendum on abortion. (Don’t get me wrong, I love turning elections into referenda on abortion, just not in districts in which doing so will make us lose.)
I visited Balkema’s website, and he does list some basic principles (some of which he may wish to flesh out). I also looked at a map of the IL-11 (see http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/pdf/congdist/pagecgd113_il.pdf), and noticed that it doesn’t include any part of Grundy County (which is where Balkema lives and where he serves in the County Board). Balkema does have ties to Joliet (where he works), which is in the SE part of the district, but he would be at a huge disadvantage in the general in the Cook, DuPage, Kane and NE Kendall precincts. For those voters, a candidate from Grundy County might as well hail from Iowa.
Oh, and national right-to-life groups certainly did not think that Senger’s bill merely “required better conditions for abortion clinics.” It’s the type of legislation that can drive out abortionists, and was the only aspect of the Texas abortion law that was challenged in federal court (a similar law in MS also was challenged because it would drive away the last few abortionists from the state).