Republican legislator in NC: I'm in office "to get jobs back", not "vote on social issues"

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Wow! Charlotte Observer politics reporter Jim Morrill writes on his blog:

Freshman GOP Rep. Charles Jeter of Huntersville said he's inclined to not support, or concur, with the Senate bill. Abortion supporters say would limit women's rights; abortion opponents say it would ensure abortion facilities are safe. Both sides say if the bill passes, and is signed by Gov. Pat McCrory, only one abortion clinic in the state would meet the requirements.

Jeter said he thinks the proposed new standards for abortion clinics -- to match those of ambulatory surgery centers -- should apply to all places that do surgery, including dental offices. As for cutting the number of abortion clinics from 16 to 1: "I don't know how that makes women's health safer," he says.

See also: Abortion bill slows down a notch by the Raleigh News & Observer:

The momentum behind the contentious abortion bill the Senate rapidly approved last week slowed in the House on Tuesday, where the state’s public health regulators told lawmakers they have serious questions about the proposed law.

As a result, House and Senate authors of the legislation agreed to try to work out concerns with the state Department of Health and Human Services. Rep. Ruth Samuelson, a Republican from Charlotte, said she hoped the questions could be resolved this week and a bill sent to the governor before the legislature leaves this summer.

McCrory told reporters Monday that, while he made a campaign promise not to support new restrictions on abortions, there was “a fine line between safety measures and restrictions.” The specifics of the governor’s concerns over House Bill 695, the “Family, Faith and Freedom Protection Act,” became clearer when the head of DHHS and top aides showed up at the House Health and Human Services Committee Tuesday morning.

Freshman Rep. Charles Jeter of Huntersville told The Charlotte Observer he wasn’t inclined to go along with the current version of the bill. Jeter said he thinks that if the same standards that apply to ambulatory surgery centers are going to apply to abortion clinics, they should also apply to every place surgery is performed, including dental offices.

“I didn’t come up here to vote on social issues,” Jeter said. “I came up here to get jobs back.”

John Boehner, ya hear that?

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1. The NC senate went too far, and the governor and house are trying to stop the damage.

Abortion is only effective as a wedge issue as long as it is legal. That's why the Republicans constantly nip at it but never actually make it illegal. The North Carolina senate went a little too far. They strayed from the Republican script and now the Republican governor and house are trying to put the genie back in the bottle. I expect to see it buried for a while.

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3. You've hit the nail on the head

If the national Republicans were really serious about outlawing abortion, they could have passed a law back in the Moral Majority days when Reagan controlled the Senate and had the backing of Boll Weevil "Democrats" in the House, or when bu$h had majorities in both houses and was getting just about everything he was asking for.

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6. in case you forgot they actually did ban some abortions at both times

It was the Reagan Senate which passed the Hyde Amendment which to this day bans medicaid from paying for abortions except in cases of life, rape and incest. Under Bush a bill was passed banning late term abortions with only a life exception.

[Art_from_Ark]

7. Whoops

I stand corrected.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

2. Fifth worst unemployment in the nation...

YES, North Carolina needs jobs!

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4. North Carolina needs to get Republicans out of leadership roles...nt

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5. Let's see who else starts smiling and nodding while backing away from the wackos