to sex education and not sneak is these bills through in the middle of the night. talk about how this got through. it was snuck into a motorcycle bill as you mentioned. i do remind about the campaign promise you talk about. here is what mccrory on the campaign trail. take a listen. if you re elected governor, what further restrictions on abortion would you agree to sign? start with you, mr. mccrory. none. all right. you can t really do a follow-up for that one. pretty buttoned up answer with none. what are the internal pressures in north carolina? and also are states like texas now the role model of what we saw happen there? now we have the snowballing of what has taken place in north carolina. i think we are seeing governors being held hostage to an extreme agenda, an extremely base that has been amplified
the motorcycle bill and ken cuccinelli is uncomfortable having the broad population of virginia see him as the crusading anti-abortion guy. well, i mean, it s politics. it s what s get them elected and the group of people that give them money. you say, where are the moderate republicans? well, we re here but we re quiet and we re not giving as much money as extremists are to push their causes. i think it goes back to term limits. i think if we didn t have people continually playing to tightly defined ideological group that has been created for them through redistricting, then pretty soon they d have to figure out in order to run the government, you have to cooperate. you don t hire somebody to do a job to stand on your tiny little platform and be buffeted by the winds. you have to reach out and work across the aisle to get something done. that doesn t happen. you know, steve, that s the big point here. the thing that voters are really stunned about is that we re spending this kind
in fact this bill was so extreme they couldn t get it through the regular legislature. they couldn t even get it through a special session. as you know, senator wendy davis successful filibustered that bill so they brought the legislature back a third time simply to ram this bill through even though it is not supported by the majority of texans. we see the same thing in north carolina. very unpopular moves by the legislature. literally attaching anti-choice, anti-women s legislation to a motorcycle bill just in hopes of jamming it through the legislature there. but people do not support this even as states like north carolina and in texas. we should point out that there is very little support never has been for late term abortions. it is a rarely used medical option but this is not just about late term abortions. this is about preventive health care and planned parenthood offering non-abortion services to women. that s right. look, the rules the law that
address his concerns. the bill would basically have the same effect in north carolina, it would still conceivably close down all but one clinic in the state but now the bill had the word safety in the title. from motorcycle safety. according to the legislators who wrote the bill, they worked with the governor s office on the substitute language that they stuffed into the motorcycle bill and he has apparently signed off on the new language so they think he will not veto it any more. naturally, democrats are fuming. last week, senate leaders tacked a package of abortion changes on to an unrelated bill with no public notice. they approved it 18 hours later. now it s the house s turn. they tacked abortion changes on to a motorcycle safety bill, again, with no public notice. hypocritical at best. disingenuous at worst. democrat rick glacier is on the panel where the new bill popped up. this is a major policy shift,
house got their new abortion language ready to go. they said the new language would address his concerns. the bill would basically have the same effect in north carolina, it would still conceivably close down all but one clinic in the state but now the bill had the word safety in the title. from motorcycle safety. according to the legislators who wrote the bill, they worked with the governor s office on the substitute language that they stuffed into the motorcycle bill and he has apparently signed off on the new language so they think he will not veto it any more. naturally, democrats are fuming. last week, senate leaders tacked a package of abortion changes on to an unrelated bill with no public notice. they approved it 18 hours later. now it s the house s turn. they tacked abortion changes on to a motorcycle safety bill, again, with no public notice. hypocritical at best. disingenuous at worst. democrat rick glacier is on the panel where the new bill popped up. this is a ma