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Christie Veto Shuts Down Abortion Clinics in NJ
National Review ^ | 9/23/2010 | Daniel Foster

Posted on 09/23/2010 7:17:29 AM PDT by Lakeshark

Part of Gov. Chris Christie’s belt-tightening plan for New Jersey was the termination of $7.5 million in public funding for Planned Parenthood clinics in the state, a decision Democrats in the legislature countermanded with a bill that cleared the Senate with a 30-10 vote — sufficient to override a veto. But when that veto came and the Democrats scheduled an override vote, Republicans in the legislature backed down, and the measure failed 23-17.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: abortion; budget; eugenics; newjerseypolitics; prolife; taxfraud; taxwaste
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To: Lakeshark

Get rid of these giant consolodated spending bills at the Fed level and a lot of the crazy spending goes away.


41 posted on 09/23/2010 7:36:20 AM PDT by November 2010
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To: Lakeshark

WOW! Thanks very much for posting.

Denigrate, defund, dismantle, destroy anti-life TOTALITARIANS and their collectivist programs.

LIFE, liberty and the pursuit and destruction of totalitarians.

HOORAY Governor Christie!!!


42 posted on 09/23/2010 7:36:36 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Lakeshark

It is interesting that Planned Parenthood cannot exist in N.J. without taxpayer support.

These pro-aborts are all talk and no support. If it’s so important to them why won’t they open their own pocket books and pay for it.

They compound the evil by using the threat of government violence to FORCE the rest of us to pay for it.


43 posted on 09/23/2010 7:37:20 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Lakeshark
I wish he hadn't done a few things (mosque, Castle), so he ain't perfect.

(1) While many clowns claim that he supported the mosuqe, he emphatically did not. He said the people whose opinions should be consulted on it are not New Jersey politicians but the families of the victims. How that possibly means an endorsement of the mosque is beyond me.

(2) He endorsed Castle because Castle was a lock in a general election. Looking at the current poll numbers in DE (Tea Party candidates are surging everywhere but there, probably because it is more of a Democrat state than New York is) his instinct was correct.

Christie a moderate-to-conservative pragmatist. He is paving the way to better things.

44 posted on 09/23/2010 7:38:01 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Not another Christie Todd Whitman so far . . . .


45 posted on 09/23/2010 7:38:35 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: RightOnTheBorder
I have always believed that fiscal conservatism aides the cause of social conservatism

Great observation. Reagan understood that best of all I think.

When I hear GOPers talking about waving the white flag on social issues it makes me want to barf.

46 posted on 09/23/2010 7:39:27 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Artemis Webb

Maybe Christie isn’t Jesse Helms, but he *is* pro-life. I’m sure he enjoyed this veto more than most.


47 posted on 09/23/2010 7:40:13 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: fml
Woman should pay out of their ouwn pockes to kill their children.

And then both them and the provider should spend time in prison for murder.

But so long as this immoral society is going to allow infanticide, it certainly should NEVER EVER be paid for by taxpayer dollars. PERIOD. NEVER!

But so long as people in power (think President Obama who specifically said that he would not want to burden his daughter with the punishment of carrying a baby if she got pregnant) are all fine and dandy with infanticide - nothing will change.


48 posted on 09/23/2010 7:40:44 AM PDT by TheBattman (They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
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To: Lakeshark

You are right. They should be praised. I’m too cynical.


49 posted on 09/23/2010 7:41:00 AM PDT by DManA
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To: netmilsmom
>>Christie is NOT as conservative as this action would suggest. I’m pretty sure that the reason for the veto had more to do with belt tightening than the abortion issue.<<

Could be but I’m not sure I care at all. God works in mysterious ways.

This is one of my favorite recent poltical stories.

50 posted on 09/23/2010 7:42:36 AM PDT by denydenydeny ("Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." Thomas Mann)
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To: Artemis Webb

You nailed it to a tee....


51 posted on 09/23/2010 7:42:39 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Lakeshark

Outstanding!


52 posted on 09/23/2010 7:43:51 AM PDT by Mobties (Let the markets work! Reduce the government footprint!)
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To: Notary Sojac

Oh, please, all those thousands and thousands of women who want to control THEIR OWN BODIES will now have to go back to the alleys and look for coat hangers!! It’s just wrong!!!
< /channeling Whoopie >

/sarc


53 posted on 09/23/2010 7:44:32 AM PDT by pillut48 (Israel doesn't have a friend in President Obama...and neither does the USA! (h/t pgkdan))
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To: Artemis Webb
It's almost amazing to me that New Jersey would have elected him.

During the election season, he stated that he was pro-life but that he knew that he could not use his position as governor to overturn it. He stated that he supported the ban on partial-birth abortion, that he was opposed to any public funding of abortion and supported full parental notification and a required waiting period.

The most recent Republican governors of NJ - Whitman and Kean - were total pro-aborts whose only caveat was public funding, which neither of them ever did a thing about.

Was the Catholic vote much of a factor?

It definitely was in Monmouth County. Our parish's RTL group was out in force and we were not alone.

54 posted on 09/23/2010 7:47:20 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: henkster

Exactly! Why on earth were they? I would be very unhappy to know my taxes were being used in this way.


55 posted on 09/23/2010 7:49:10 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: Lakeshark

So 7 RINOs in the NJ Senate voted to continue public funding of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics despite not having enough money to even pay the teachers?


56 posted on 09/23/2010 7:51:20 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: Lakeshark; All

See folks, isn’t it beautiful when fiscal and social conservatism work together?


57 posted on 09/23/2010 7:52:02 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (is a Jim DeMint Republican. You might say he's a funDeMintalist conservative.)
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To: Lakeshark

Huzzah. Smaller government AND innocents saved from death.

A win-win.


58 posted on 09/23/2010 7:52:19 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Lakeshark

Not a conservative, they say?


59 posted on 09/23/2010 7:52:58 AM PDT by RockinRight (if the choice is between Crazy and Commie, I choose Crazy.)
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To: Artemis Webb
Christie is NOT as conservative as this action would suggest. I’m pretty sure that the reason for the veto had more to do with belt tightening than the abortion issue.

In terms of cutting spending on things that government should not be funding at all with tax dollars in the first place, this action is a conservative action. "Conservative" actually has much more to do with limiting size, scope, and power of government than it has to do with the abortion issue.

60 posted on 09/23/2010 7:55:36 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Jesus called us to be Salt and Light, not Vinegar and Water.)
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