Opinion: Some conservative women support abortion rights
Kristina Garner
Kristina Garner is a former executive director of the Republican Party of Shelby County, has worked on numerous campaigns for local candidates, and has served the community on multiple boards and commissions. She has also owned her own media freelance business for 20 years. She has called Germantown home since 2003.
Conservative Kristina Garner writes about her support of limited government, individual freedoms, the right to bear arms, a strong military, and the importance of state and local rights. But on abortion, she writes that decades of discrimination against women lead her and many other conservatives to disagree with the Republican Party’s position.
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