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Michael Tucker, scientific director with Georgia Reproductive Specialists, right, reacts during a discussion of the implications of Mississippi's Personhood Initiative in a symposium Tuesday night, Oct. 25, 2011 at the Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson, Miss. The practicing attorneys, law professors and others debated the implications of the state ballot initiative that would declare life begins when a human egg is fertilized. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
The initiative is endorsed by GOP gubernatorial candidate Phil Bryant, who Christie will campaign for later in the week.
Christie says that campaigning for Bryant doesn't mean he supports the measure. However, Christie reiterated Tuesday that he is against abortion rights.
Christie supported abortion rights earlier in his career. But he says that changed after the birth of his second child.
Christie and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour are scheduled to appear Thursday at a get-out-the-vote rally for Bryant.