{"id":164,"date":"2009-10-29T00:19:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T04:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/10\/29\/gop-hypocrisy-on-abortion\/"},"modified":"2009-10-29T00:19:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T04:19:02","slug":"gop-hypocrisy-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/10\/29\/gop-hypocrisy-on-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Hypocrisy on Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margi Vanderhye, a state delegate representing the northern edge of Fairfax County, Virginia, is in a tight race with Barbara Comstock, who has a reputation as a street fighter in GOP.  Her party, of course, for many years used abortion to win races.  As that tactic isn\u2019t working anymore for them \u2013 but is for pro-choice candidates, the GOP is shameless being hypocritical.  Here is the opening of a letter to the editor<\/a> of a Fairfax weekly paper.<\/p>\n

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Since Del. Margi Vanderhye (D-34) has decided to make the divisive issue of abortion a major part of her campaign instead of focusing on jobs, transportation and education, I would like to address this diversionary tactic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

GOP lemmings probably don\u2019t even recognize the irony.  Listen to how sympathetic GOPers now are about abortion.<\/p>\n

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Barbara understands that there are good people on both sides of this difficult issue and that there are many more issues that we agree on than disagree. She has always worked with men and women on both sides of this issue with mutual respect and she has the strong support of men and women on both sides of this issue because she has a record of producing results on kitchen table issues that matter to our district.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m getting all choked up about this \u201cdifficult issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The issues that get addressed in the state legislature are those such as limiting taxpayer funds for abortion, providing parental involvement in the decision of a young girl to have an abortion or health and safety regulations to protect women. There already exists in Virginia a bipartisan consensus on these issues and it would be a waste of our legislature\u2019s time to do what Del. Vanderhye wants to do, reopen these divisive social issue debates when there are so many other important issues we need to address for our community. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other words, don\u2019t undo all the restrictions Virginia Republicans put on abortions over the years.<\/p>\n

They say this stuff with a straight face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Margi Vanderhye, a state delegate representing the northern edge of Fairfax County, Virginia, is in a tight race with Barbara Comstock, who has a reputation as a street fighter in GOP.  Her party, of course, for many years used abortion to win races.  As that tactic isn\u2019t working anymore for them \u2013 but is for… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}