Brian Lairer on WNYC. Now we continue our election series, 30 issues in 30 days.

It's day 19 and issue 19 abortion rights as an issue in the New Jersey governor's race.

With me now to explain the positions of Republican Jack Chitterelli and Democrat Mikey Sherrill and what could change if either is elected is Terrence McDonald, editor at the New Jersey Monitor.

The Monitor published an article last week called Governor's Race Could Alter Abortion Landscape in New Jersey.

Terrence, thanks for coming on with us. Welcome to WNYC today.

Thanks for having me, Brian.

And listeners will be joined shortly by Dr. Kristen Brandy and OBGYN, who practices in New Jersey

and who was the board chair of physicians for reproductive health.

But let's start with two clips from the recent televised debate on the ABC stations in New York and

Philadelphia. Here's Cheryl using a horror story from Texas to spotlight a position that she says

Chittarelli holds for New Jersey. You know, we're hearing stories across the

country about horrible outcomes like Portia, a woman in Texas, who went to the emergency room as she

was miscarrying, two young children at home. As she was miscarrying, they gave her multiple

transfusions, but because of abortion bans, like the one my opponent's proposing, the doctors were

afraid to give her a

DNC or an abortion to save her life. So she died in an emergency room, purely preventable,

could have been taken care of. But when you put in place things like my opponent has suggested,

people die. We also have the fact that when he was last in office, he voted to defund

Planned Parenthood. So these are not pro-choice positions.

Mikey Sherrill there, and Jack Chitorelli responded this way in the debate, framing himself

as pro-choice, as you'll hear.

But you'll also hear, it sounds like he basically doesn't want New Jersey to get involved

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