Chris Christie teamed up with leading anti-abortion activist Marjorie Dannenfelser
months before the Supreme Court overturned Law vs Wadea prominent anti-abortion leader Marjorie Dannenfelser We have started a meeting with the Republican governor to discuss how the aftermath of the court’s decision will play out.
She was attended to many of these meetings by unlikely allies. Former Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie.
Christie has been twice elected as a Republican in one of the nation’s most liberal states, and her 2016 presidential campaign focused on winning moderate Republican voters in states such as New Hampshire. Expanded.
But he’s also been against abortion for decades, and is leaning toward the anti-abortion stance as he considers running for the White House again in 2024. His work with major anti-abortion groups could help Christie score points with social conservatives who play a key role in the Republican primary. during an interview with Axios‘ Alaina Treen late June, However, the extent of their collaboration has not been previously reported.
- “He was a great communicator and had a great spirit from this political point of view in his conversations with governors across the country. — but especially with governors who are in purple-type states.” Susan B. Anthony ProLife America, told The Early 202“He was in the blues as a pro-life governor, refusing Planned Parenthood funding every time and staying in office.”
Abortion politics have since become harder than many Republicans expected egg overturned. There are now intra-party fights across the country over how far access to abortion should be restricted, split over whether to include exceptions for rape and incest, and extending into public spheres.
Once Governor, Always Governor
Christie and Dannenfelser have known each other for at least ten years.They decided to team up after talking at Republican Governors Association According to Christie, they met last summer.
The pair spoke with at least eight Republican governors across the country in the months before the court ruled egg Help states defend abortion laws already enacted, answer questions, and prepare to debate the implications of a ruling that could overturn the constitutional right to abortion enacted nearly half a century ago. increase. Dannenfelser has spoken to more people herself, bringing the total to at least 22 people. Christie said in an interview last month that she had not spoken to the governor about abortion recently, but she did not rule out rejoining such discussions.
Christie said he is considering another presidential campaign and plans to make a decision later this year or early next year.But the meeting with the governor has nothing to do with his political future. said.
- “Whether I ran for president or not, I was helping my fellow governors.” Christie added that he continues to raise money and campaign for a Republican governor even after his resignation.
Still, some of Christie’s critics see his efforts motivated by interest in rerunning.
“I see him doing whatever he can to maintain some kind of national presence. Bonnie Watson Coleman (DN.J.) said in an interview that he clashed with Christie over planned parental funding when Christie was governor. Because he thinks he’s the president.”
Christie hasn’t always been against abortion.
Around 1995, he said, his position changed after hearing the second child’s heartbeat at his wife’s early pregnancy prenatal check-up.When he ran for governor, he sidestepped advice to accept abortion rights as a former Republican governor. Thomas Keane Sr. When Christine Todd Whitman I had
- “We had a lot of pro-life Republicans running for the U.S. Senate and losing, so we had the idea that we couldn’t win without pro-choice. Mike Duheim, ran Christie’s 2009 campaign. “He was basically saying, ‘Well, we’ll find out.'”
his veto $7.5 million State funding for Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics earned him his accolades as governor. right to life in new jersey and backlash from abortion providers.
Republicans in Many States Christie and Danenfelser Talked to Governors Restrict Abortion, and Laws Already in the Book Take Effect Once egg overturned.
The pair have spoken with the government. Greg Jeanforte (Moon), Spencer Cox (Utah), Mark Gordon (Wyoming), Mike Parson (Moon), Doug Ducey (Arizona), Christy L. Nome (SD), brad little (Idaho) and Eric Holcomb According to (Ind.) SBA Prolife America.
Christie maintains that he and Dannenfelser did not advocate any specific pregnancy restrictions for the operation.Dannenfelser has repeatedly said he supports the state. “As ambitious as they can be.”
- Some of Christie’s conversations with Dannenfelser’s governor include a discussion of what the state can do to help women who may have had abortions before Republicans outlaw the procedure. “How do you address the needs of the women in your state and help them get out of the hole they’re in so they don’t go back there again?” As Dannenfelser said in an interview, Dobbs decision.
But many state legislatures have adjourned since the ruling was overturned eggThat means that since the Supreme Court’s ruling, we have not passed new laws that increase state support for women and children. And given that policies like paid family leave can strain states, it can be a tough sell.Noem recently called The South Dakota Legislature will create a paid family leave policy. According to her office, her conversation with Dannenfelser partially led Noem to refocus on paid family leave.
In Utah, Christie and Dannenfelser “encouraged the governor to focus on helping vulnerable women and children,” according to Cox’s office. family office, He said this could involve new policy initiatives, but details were not yet available.
Today’s on-tap: Sen. Lindsey Graham (RS.C.) will present a new version of his “pain-ready” bill at a noon press conference. Abortion prevention leaders such as Dannenfelser will attend.Expectations are what the bill imposes Federal 15-week limit However, Graham’s staff were not reached for comment by The Health 202. previous version One of the bills would ban abortions at 20 weeks.
FDA Will Weigh Over-the-Counter Oral Contraceptives This November
of Food and Drug Administration have scheduled a joint meeting of external advisors to review PerigotDaily contraceptive application for over-the-counter use.
detail: joint meeting will be held November 18th With the agency’s Non-Prescription Drugs Advisory Board and Obstetrics, Reproductive and Urology Drugs Advisory Board. If approved, Perrigo’s Opill will be the first daily contraceptive to be marketed in the United States.
The meeting takes place approximately four months after the company’s affiliates. HRA Pharma applied Switching from prescription to over-the-counter drugs Opill is a progestin-only tablet used by prescription since its approval in 1973.
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To recharge efforts, Biden promotes ‘cancer moonshot’ in Boston
of President Biden The Cancer Moonshot initiative has been plagued with a series of setbacks and struggles in its first few months. But experts are optimistic that new actions by the administration may have been enough. shift the trajectory of effort to a better coursepost Cleve R. Utson Jr., Laurie McGinley When Matt Visor report.
Researchers hope that Biden’s speech about the initiative in Boston yesterday will reenergize the effort and convince Americans that the goal of eradicating cancer is achievable.
Main context: According to several cancer advocates and experts familiar with the situation, the Moonshot Initiative, which will halve the number of deaths from the disease in the country over the next 25 years, will put staff, resources, and government health agencies in key positions. Hampered by the lack of some people.
But now the administration has recruited candidates to fill vacancies in senior federal positions that are central to the initiative’s goals. National Cancer Institute and Biden’s new high-stakes investigative agency ARPA-H — igniting hope that the Moonshot effort will accelerate.Experts say that, coupled with other legislative victories such as Annual cap of $2,000 Out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients — showing that the goal of striving may one day be within reach.
Still, some experts have urged governments to take a broader view of moonshotswhich involves finding ways to help cancer patients based on what is already known about cancer, in addition to pursuing technological advances.
For more information on the initiative, see Biden’s remarks on the 60th anniversary yesterday. President John F. Kennedy Famous “moonshot” speeches:
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- In the Largest Private Sector Nurses’ Strike in U.S. Historyabout 15,000 nurses in Minnesota I quit my job Yesterday, the Post’s Lauren Kaori Gurley report.
- The US government may have wrongly awarded over $1.3 billion With the coronavirus aid aimed at helping strengthen small business finances to foreign applicants, according to new report from Small and Medium Enterprise Agencyinspector’s office. The watchdog’s findings have raised new suspicions that the program may have helped fund overseas crime syndicates. Tony Rom I am writing.
- Approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Japan’s first Medicaid-covered mobile crisis intervention services program launches in Oregon. announced yesterday.
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