Posted on 04/25/2016 10:36:14 AM PDT by Morgana
On Sunday, Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus dismissed speculation that Donald Trump’s recent comments about changing the GOP platform’s abortion plank would lead to any actual changes.
Last week, the businessman and GOP presidential candidate said he would “absolutely” favor amending the platform’s declaration “that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed” to make exceptions for rape, incest, and life-of-the-mother cases.
But on ABC’s “This Week,” Priebus noted that convention delegates, not the candidates, have the final say over any alterations to the party platform. “If that’s what Donald Trump is intending, then he needs to make sure that the people that agree with him are the people that are getting elected to the platform committee,” he said.
“I think our platform is pretty clear on those subjects. Life begins at conception, and that 14th Amendment rights apply to unborn children,” Priebus continued. “And I would suspect that that is what the platform is going to say after Cleveland.”
Trump’s own official campaign position is pro-life with those exceptions, but the GOP platform does not prevent incremental legislation containing those exceptions. Of his remaining primary competitors, Ohio Governor John Kasich also supports those exceptions, but Texas Senator Ted Cruz supports only an exception to save a mother’s life.
judges. my mind is shot. sorry.
meant to say judges
but what about justice dept can they help, hurt or do nothing for states
That’s the party platform. But how many Republicans have tried to overturn Roe/Wade.
Another GOP attempt to derail Trump with an issue that isn’t even an issue for a president. The issue should be the issue of religious freedom and whether or not to force people to pay for other people’s abortions.
Here are some stories from people who were themselves conceived in rape.
http://www.juda4praise.com/Other_Conceived_in_Rape_Stories.htm
The genes of one parent really aren’t such a determining factor in life. Every life came separately from God and is its own.
THE SANCTITY AND DIGNITY OF HUMAN LIFE
Faithful to the “self-evident” truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children. We oppose using public revenues to promote or perform abortion or fund organizations which perform or advocate it and will not fund or subsidize health care which includes abortion coverage. We support the appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life. We oppose the non-consensual withholding or withdrawal of care or treatment, including food and water, from people with disabilities, including newborns, as well as the elderly and infirm, just as we oppose active and passive euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Republican leadership has led the effort to prohibit the barbaric practice of partial birth abortion, permitted States to extend health care coverage to children before birth. We urge Congress to strengthen the Born Alive Infant Protection Act by exacting appropriate civil and criminal penalties to health care providers who fail to provide treatment and care to an infant who survives and abortion, including early induction delivery where the death of the infant is intended. We call for legislation to ban sex-selective abortions – gender discrimination in its most lethal form – and to protect from abortion unborn children who are capable of feeling pain; and we applaud U.S. House Republicans for leading the effort to protect the lives of pain-capable unborn children in the District of Columbia. We call for a revision of federal law 42 U.S.C. 289.92 to bar the use of body parts from aborted fetuses for research. We support and applaud adult stem cell research to develop lifesaving therapies, and we oppose the killing of embryos for their stem cells. We oppose federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
We also salute the many states that have passed laws for informed consent, mandatory waiting periods prior to an abortion, and health protective clinic regulation. We seek to protect young girls from exploitation through a parental consent requirement; and we affirm our moral obligation to assist, rather than penalize, women challenged by an unplanned pregnancy. We salute those who provide them with counseling and adoption alternatives and empower them to choose live, and we take comfort in the tremendous increase in adoptions that has followed Republican legislative initiatives.
First of all, the unfortunate reality is that she is already carrying the baby. The question is, should she be permitted to kill the baby?
Second of all, it is also HER baby. A child should not die for the crime of his/her father. I read an article from a woman who actually is pro-abortion, but her daughter was conceived in rape. She said one of the most hurtful things that anyone can say about her daughter is comparing her daughter to her father. She said people act like her daughter must be a bad person because of who her father is, and she said her daughter is a wonderful person, and it breaks her heart to hear people talk that way. We wouldn’t judge a born child and kill the born child if his/her father is a criminal and he/she has “horrible genes”. We can’t do that to the unborn child either. There have been people raised in idyllic circumstances with two normal parents who turn out to be evil and people who have been raised in horrible circumstances with a bad parent(s) who turn out to be good. It’s absolutely not our job to judge.
Rape is a horrible, aggressive act. However, transferring aggression by killing an innocent bystander, the woman’s own child, is not right.
The rape exception was a foot in the door for the abortion industry to expand abortion to what it is today. Society is screwed up in that what is considered “merciful” is not saying protect both lives because ultimately, it can’t undo the rape, what is considered merciful is killing the child. If abortion mentality didn’t exist and a culture of life did, we would support the woman and the child.
IF you are pro-life because you believe the unborn child is a person, then the child should be protected under the 5th and 14th amendments to the Constitution. A person has a right to life unless they are guilty of some crime which takes that right away.
I find it interesting that you say “stop trying to live people’s life instead of them.” That’s the entire argument for the abortion industry. Also, it’s very ironic you say that while you are arguing for the right of a woman to take a person’s life. The unborn child won’t get to live that life. It’s easy for people to stand there and say it is the merciful, compassionate thing, but not a single person saying that has to die the way the unborn child will die. The child will either be sucked in pieces through a tube or the child will be dismembered in the womb, the pieces removed one by one. What a horrible way to die for only the crime of existing. The child never asked to be here. Not a single person born would want to die that way yet feel perfectly comfortable arguing for an unborn child to die that way. We don’t even kill our most hardened criminals in such a manner.
Pretty slick move, I’d say.
A lot of the go-along-to-get-along RINOs have been hedging on this, now the RNC corralled them.
Sure, the President appoints judges, and those judges might eventually hear a case about a state abortion law.
Reagan later deeply regretted the very liberal abortion law he signed while governor of California, as well.
Do some research on this issue,especially mental illness genes. You won’t be convinced.
That is the rape victims decision .
I have done a lot of research on this in the past, and the focus on genes is a way for psychology/psychiatry to cast people as biological machines “programmed” for certain things which they are then said to have no control over. Genes then get blamed for a lot of the damage done by antichristian secular humanism.
It would still be playing God, even if the rape victim made the decision. God is the only one with the right to make that decision, for God owns all of our lives.
If you can justify killing an innocent child because it MIGHT have “bad genes”, then you can’t really object to others who want to abort babies because a screening test says it MIGHT have some congenital illness. Pretty soon, they’ll be screening fetuses for low intelligence, tendencies for obesity, predisposition to diabetes, heart disease, etc.
The bottom line is, if you have your heart set on finding an excuse to kill the innocent, then the human imagination will provide you with the excuse you desire, but that will never make it right.
The platform will not change. Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Killing a child for the sin of his or her father is barbarism.
Killing an innocent child for the sin of their parent is barbaric.
It’s also unconstitutional, and therefore illegal.
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