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theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
Wed Jul 30, 2014, 07:45 AM Jul 2014

Christie call to cool abortion talk follows restrictions in N.J.

In other words, he just doesn't want voters to know what his real policies are because it would cost him votes. What a disgusting piece of shit he is.

Columbus CEO
Christie call to cool abortion talk follows restrictions in N.J.
By Elise Young
28 July, 2104
Courtesy of the Associated Press
Bloomberg News.

TRENTON, New Jersey — Chris Christie, who last week prodded Republicans to drop anti-abortion rhetoric to appeal to more voters, has steadily weakened access to the procedure in New Jersey.

Even with a Democratic-controlled legislature committed to reproductive rights, the second-term governor's annual funding cuts for women's health services have prompted at least six clinics to close since 2010, according to lawmakers.

Christie, a possible White House contender in 2016, told Republican leaders in Colorado on July 25 that they need to recast how they promote their views on social issues without altering their positions. The first New Jersey governor to publicly declare himself against abortion since the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling says he favored the right until he heard his unborn daughter's heartbeat.

"The governor, particularly because he's had to face differing constituencies with differing opinions on this issue, has had to be enormously careful about what he says and where he says it," Brigid Harrison, a politics professor at Montclair State University, said by telephone July 25.... MORE at http://www.columbusceo.com/content/stories/apexchange/2014/07/28/christie-call-to-cool-abortion-talk-follows-restrictions-in-n-j-.html

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Christie call to cool abortion talk follows restrictions in N.J. (Original Post) theHandpuppet Jul 2014 OP
yes, let's not talk about it--draw attention to what woman-hating asshyoles we are, let's just niyad Jul 2014 #1

niyad

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1. yes, let's not talk about it--draw attention to what woman-hating asshyoles we are, let's just
Wed Jul 30, 2014, 10:10 PM
Jul 2014

do it, and hope we don't get caught.

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