{"id":20628,"date":"2015-06-30T10:10:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T14:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/governor-chris-christie-vetoes-important-pro-lgbt-surrogacy-bill\/"},"modified":"2015-06-30T10:10:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T14:10:56","slug":"governor-chris-christie-vetoes-important-pro-lgbt-surrogacy-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/governor-chris-christie-vetoes-important-pro-lgbt-surrogacy-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Chris Christie Vetoes Important Pro-LGBT Surrogacy Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Governor Chris Christie Vetoes Important Pro-LGBT Surrogacy Bill<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/\/files\/images\/blog\/newjersey_flag_blog.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>                        Last night, Governor Chris Christie shamefully vetoed important bipartisan legislation passed by the New Jersey Legislature that would have modernized New Jersey law by giving legal parental rights of a child carried by a gestational surrogate to the intended parent at birth.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/governor-chris-christie-vetoes-important-pro-lgbt-surrogacy-bill?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/governor-chris-christie-vetoes-important-pro-lgbt-surrogacy-bill?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Chris Christie Vetoes Important Pro-LGBT Surrogacy Bill Last night, Governor Chris Christie shamefully vetoed important bipartisan legislation passed by the New Jersey Legislature that would have modernized New Jersey law by giving legal parental rights of a child carried by a gestational surrogate to the intended parent at birth. <a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/governor-chris-christie-vetoes-important-pro-lgbt-surrogacy-bill?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/governor-chris-christie-vetoes-important-pro-lgbt-surrogacy-bill?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Governor Chris Christie Vetoes Important Pro-LGBT Surrogacy Bill - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/governor-chris-christie-vetoes-important-pro-lgbt-surrogacy-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Governor Chris Christie Vetoes Important Pro-LGBT Surrogacy Bill - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governor Chris Christie Vetoes Important Pro-LGBT Surrogacy Bill Last night, Governor Chris Christie shamefully vetoed important bipartisan legislation passed by the New Jersey Legislature that would have modernized New Jersey law by giving legal parental rights of a child carried by a gestational surrogate to the intended parent at birth. 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