{"id":2986,"date":"2024-05-23T16:16:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/larry-hogan-doubles-down-on-pro-choice-stance-pledges-to-abort-purple-line\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:46:10","slug":"larry-hogan-doubles-down-on-pro-choice-stance-pledges-to-abort-purple-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/larry-hogan-doubles-down-on-pro-choice-stance-pledges-to-abort-purple-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Hogan Doubles Down on Pro-Choice Stance By Pledging to Abort Purple Line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"848\" height=\"636\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/takoma-torch-hogan-abortion.jpg?resize=848%2C636&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/takoma-torch-hogan-abortion.jpg?w=848&amp;ssl=1 848w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/takoma-torch-hogan-abortion.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/takoma-torch-hogan-abortion.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/takoma-torch-hogan-abortion.jpg?resize=675%2C506&amp;ssl=1 675w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/takoma-torch-hogan-abortion.jpg?resize=360%2C270&amp;ssl=1 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ANNAPOLIS, MD &#8211; In an effort to prove to Maryland Democrats just how committed he is to protecting pro-choice rights, former Republican Governor Larry Hogan announced today that if elected to the U.S. Senate he will abort the Purple Line project currently under construction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m still a Republican that believes life begins at conception of widening freeways,&#8221; reassured Hogan, appearing at a recent rally wearing a &#8220;It&#8217;s Not a Train, It&#8217;s a Fetus&#8221; shirt. &#8220;But I also believe in protecting the right to abort an unwanted public transportation project &#8211; as long as it&#8217;s within the first three decades of the project, and down-county residents are forced to watch an informative video first.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hogan, known for vetoing literally every bill attempting to protect abortion rights in Maryland in the wake of the SCOTUS Dobbs decision, now needs the support of moderate down-county Democrats in order to win a Senate seat. By appealing to the main opponents of the Purple Line &#8211; Chevy Chase soccer moms &#8211; he feels he now has a path to victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In the Senate, I will support legislation that makes abortion legal in every state, so that every woman can make her own choice,&#8221; proclaimed Hogan just before throwing up in his mouth and swallowing it. &#8220;And that includes a woman&#8217;s right to choose to drive in a safe, luxury SUV over using scary public transportation with those people.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It remains to be seen if Hogan can draw in Democratic voters with his latest position shift, however it appears this political move solidified support from far-right Republicans in the state. &#8220;Finally, someone is saying the quiet part out loud,&#8221; said perennial GOP campaigner Robin Ficker. &#8220;Besides, if these liberals don&#8217;t want their paved roads, they should put them up in the Adopt A Highway program.&#8221;&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNAPOLIS, MD &#8211; In an effort to prove to Maryland Democrats just how committed he is to protecting pro-choice rights, former Republican Governor Larry Hogan announced today that if elected to the U.S. Senate he will abort the Purple Line project currently under construction. &#8220;Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m still a Republican that believes life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10],"tags":[1605,247,403,114,1603,508,1018,184,724,887,1038,183,992,516,95,1039,1009,1251,1111,1113,551,24,883,970,1130,996,916,915,874,373,995,281,370,140,318,853,489,371,368,280,979,190,1273,127,189,143,93,4,2,716],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-national-politics","tag-2024-election","tag-abortion","tag-affordable-housing","tag-amazon","tag-angela-alsobrooks","tag-annapolis","tag-baltimore","tag-bethesda","tag-bethesdafication","tag-bike-lanes","tag-brooke-lierman","tag-chevy-chase","tag-chris-van-hollen","tag-cnn","tag-comedy","tag-comptroller-of-maryland","tag-dc-humor","tag-dc-jokes","tag-dc-metro","tag-dc-metro-map","tag-dc-politics","tag-dc-satire","tag-discover-long-branch","tag-dmv-news","tag-dmv-satire","tag-donald-trump","tag-downtown-silver-spring","tag-dtss","tag-east-silver-spring","tag-ebay","tag-election-2024","tag-election-results","tag-facebook","tag-fake-news","tag-ficker","tag-forest-glen","tag-funny","tag-gmail","tag-google","tag-google-election-results","tag-google-news","tag-hogan","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-larry-hogan","tag-maryland","tag-purple-line","tag-satire","tag-takoma","tag-takoma-park","tag-takoma-satire","wpcat-17-id","wpcat-10-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/takoma-torch-hogan-abortion.jpg?fit=848%2C636&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPZSG-Ma","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}