Posted on 07/12/2024 9:53:21 PM PDT by Morgana
The Republican National Committee’s 2024 stance on abortion is the worst platform plank he’s ever seen, pro-life advocate Tom McClusky said Wednesday at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington.
McClusky, principal at public affairs firm Greenlight Strategies LLC, said that this week was a dark one for the pro-life movement in a panel discussion, “Beyond Dobbs.” That’s a reference to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the June 2022 Supreme Court abortion decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
The RNC’s 2024 platform betrays the pro-life founders of the Republican Party, he said.
“If the Republican Party weakens, I’m standing on the shoulders of people who fought for decades to make the Republican Party pro-life,” McClusky said.
The RNC’s Platform Committee adopted former President Donald Trump’s GOP platform, the Trump campaign announced on Monday, including new language on abortion and on protection of the unborn.
That new platform’s abortion language is a significant departure from the party’s life messaging in 2016, which was largely replicated in 2020, since it no longer calls for federal protections for unborn babies and instead suggests that the issue is up to the states. The 2016 platform included the word “abortion” 35 times, while the 2024 platform merely includes abortion once.
“It appears that there is little courage or appetite among our national leaders to try to protect unborn Americans with new federal laws,” said Katy Talento, a former policy adviser for President Donald Trump and CEO at AllBetter Health, a firm that helps employers navigate health plan benefits.
Abortion is not just a state issue, as the RNC platform suggests, McClusky said, because the federal government is not neutral on it. More than $1 billion a year goes to the abortion industry nationally and internationally to help promote, subsidize, and perform abortions, he said.
The Biden administration “is not just pro-abortion,” McClusky said. “It lives and breathes abortion. It is their religion. They want to take out us. They want to take out our children. So, there is a federal role right there.”
“States can fight against the abortion drug, but the abortion drug is promoted by the United States Postal Service—that is under federal jurisdiction,” he added. “That is why the federal government needs to get involved.”
Politicians should read the Food and Drug Administration label on the abortion pill before advocating for it being available on demand, Talento said.
“The next woman bleeding out in a fetal position could be their daughter or granddaughter,” she said.
“It’s time to take seriously the dangerous risks of this powerful, toxic chemical,” Talento added, asserting that 1 in 20 women end up in a hospital emergency room after taking the abortion pill.
The Biden administration has transformed “every agency into Planned Parenthood,” she said, adding that a second Trump administration could reverse President Joe Biden’s radically pro-abortion agency guidelines, she said.
“Those will all have to be reversed,” Talento said, “and there’s simply no avoiding it.”
Correction: This article has been edited to remove a reference to Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., supporting mifepristone. Rubio opposes the abortion pill.
You can call it murder all you want it’s not legally and that’s your own personal opinion which you are entitled too. Get the voters to back your opinion into law.
As for drugs I support freedom if people make poor choices that’s their personal responsibility be it alcohol one of the worst drugs that destroys lives and families every day in much higher numbers than all other drugs combined that’s easy to look up btw in data from around the world. Tobacco same it kills 200,000+ per day , oh you mean marijuana which kills hardly anyone I don’t smoke that trash but if people who are adults want too that what freedom is. Again alcohol is so much worse for the body,mind and soul. I love how raging alcoholics get all up on marijuana smokers. news flash if you drink every day even “a few beers” that’s no different than smoking a “couple of hits” no diffrent at all from a clinical sense either.
True in Ohio. Here, the pro-abortion mob won last November with a constitutional amendment. Problem is there are laws on the books that still ban abortion it about 30 cases. This will have to be adjudicated. If the squishies in our conservative legislature and Supreme Court don’t give in it’s not going to be a pretty fight. I’m not hopeful with our Squish in Chief Governor DeWhine.
I don’t expect to convince you; I’m just putting out my opinion. As I said above, do whatever you think is right, knowing that someday we will all have to give an account to God. Have a blessed day.
Amen! Trump needs to be himself and go for the win. I am pro-life but I also understand that at this time in our country, we will have to be realistic about abortion and the politics surrounding it. We have to get into the Whitehouse before we can hope to stop abortion on demand. We have to get the border closed and inflation under control.
A blessed day to you as well.
The issue is back in the states, as our Constitution requires. Pro-lifers can now get about the business of changing a culture that encourages abortions. Maybe they can start pressing local school boards to encourage virginity, rather than sleeping around and aborting the consequences. Maybe even making alliances with Muslims on this issue.
Once again I call atention to this from the article.
Abortion is not just a state issue, as the RNC platform suggests, McClusky said, because the federal government is not neutral on it. More than $1 billion a year goes to the abortion industry nationally and internationally to help promote, subsidize, and perform abortions, he said.
To corroborate that claim I found it may be closer to 2 Billion. And that abortion is costing our economy 6.9 TRILLION Dollars.
Ask yourself - if Trump and the RNC are sincere about removing abortion from a national issue - then will they do anything at all regarding the massive federal burden abortions bring on us? Or will they somehow leave this to the states also?
States Rights is a "bury your head in the sand" approach. It didn't work to resolve the slavery issue. It won't work now regarding abortion.
Which do you really care about the babies or virtue signaling?
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Well, when you define that caring about babies is not about ignoring the national abortion crisis as Trump and the RNC are doing versus virtue signaling which Trump, the RNC and states rights advocates are doing as they take a “bury your head in the sand” approach hoping that the states can solve and resolve this very National crisis.
Then, yes. I care about babies. As opposed to states rights advocates, who want to leave this issue to the states instead of the federal government where the problem really is. But hey – Removing abortion as a national issue will bring us a few more votes, right? Maybe moderates might swing our way?
I’d still rather fight RINOs than Democrats.
Abortion is not a federal issue? Then you have no problem with the feds spending billions of dollars annually to fund and promote it?
Sending 169 Billion dollars to escalate a war we have no business with is not a States Rights issue. But I daresay you would approve it if Trump and the RNC ignored this waste of money as well. “Ehh.. leave it to the States.”
“States can fight against the abortion drug, but the abortion drug is promoted by the United States Postal Service—that is under federal jurisdiction,” he added. “That is why the federal government needs to get involved.””
No federal law is needed to solve that. Executive action alone has allowed it an executive action can end it.
Your're right. Much progress has been made by Republicans in Congress and in the White House in fighting this national crisis of Abortion. I'm the first to say that I'll never forget the greatest Republican victory was that President Trump appointed 3 SC justices wich directly lead to Roe b Wade being overturned.
But now? Now Republicans want to run away from this issue? In order to maybe win a few votes?
One might argue that Repubs are not running away. But they are! Leaving this issue to the States is not going to solve the problem any more than when we used to leave slavery to the states.
Dropping abortion from the RNC platform is pretending it's not a national problem.
I love it! Great approach.
Until the Dems start crying over how you threw grandma under the bus with no SS benefits.
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Where were these pro-lifers in 2022 when the red wave fizzled? Why didn’t they vote for the Republicans?
"RNC’s New Abortion Stance Betrays GOP’s Founding, Pro-Life Activist Says’"
But why isn't constitutionally undefined RNC pointing out the following constitutional problems with politically correct federal taxing, spending and dictates for vote-winning abortion?
First, the Supreme Court probably wouldn't have tried to get away with it's scandalous, state power-stealing legalization of abortion if parents had been making sure that their children were being taught the Constitution's division of state and federal government powers as constitutional drafters had intended for those powers to be understood.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, using inappropriate (imo) terms like "concept" and "implicit," here is what was left of 10th Amendment (10A)-protected state powers after FDR's state sovereignty-ignoring justices had previously effectively “repealed” it, unique state power to prohibit abortion for example, when they wrongly decided Wickard v. Filburn in Congress's favor imo.
"In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was "necessary and proper" to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept [??? all emphases added] of sovereignty thought to be implicit [???] in the status of statehood. Certain activities such as "production," manufacturing, and "mining" were occasionally said to be within the province of state governments and beyond the power of Congress under the Commerce Clause." —Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.
Post-17th Amendment ratification elite Democrats and RINOs eventually seized the opportunity provided by Supreme's politically correct repeal of 10A and embraced abortion as a politically correct "constitutional right" to win votes to stay in power.
More specifically, Roe provided another excuse to justify the federal government's abuse of its 16th Amendment powers (direct taxes) to steal even more from citizens' wallets with unconstitutional, unaccountable federal taxing and spending to stay in power by winning the votes of misguided, constitutionally low-information voters.
Also, a MAJOR shortcoming (imo) of Rep. John Bingham's Section 1 of the 14th Amendment (14A) in the context of abortion is the noted below.
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 1: All persons born [??? emphasis added] or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
The several instances of person(s) used in 14A don't reasonably include the embryo without stretching the common usage of that word imo.
By surrendering state power to prohibit abortion back to the states, including stopping 16A-based federal unconstitutional taxing and spending for abortion, hopeful Trump 47 is at last taking a constitutionally justifiable, 10A-restoring step to limit abortion imo.
NO “GOP conention platform has ever alarmed me, no matter what it says. Why? NO ONE in the Presidency or Congress has ever said as a matter of policy or legislative intent, that “we should do thus and so” because the party platform says so.
The pro-life Congressional reps will remain so and will continue to work for pro-Life policies, part platform or no party platform. I know it, you know and it everyone knows it.
Meanwhile, in the general election, some moderate and independent voters may be swayed to vote for Trump because what the RBC platform says. That’s fine. Meanwhile that platform is not going to be material when it comes to the seats in Congress. So, I worry not.
With all due respect, that is the most asinine remark I've read in a long time.
In a decade or less, slavery and the national issues that they brought to the table would have gotten much worse. But perhaps you think that "in a decade or less" Southern states would have decided on your own that slavery was bad.
But lets bring your thought process to relate now with abortion. We've had 40 years of letting abortion fester and foster like slavery did. Do you think if we gave the States the right to decide if Roe v. Wade was wrong that they would do so?
Thank God Trump and the RNC weren't so blind 8 years ago when their national policy was to oppose abortion. We never would have gotten the Dobbs decision if they were.
Trump took 2 giants steps forward in that 3 good justices were appointed. Yet one step backwards in this decision to abandon and ignore this abortion issue.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
In addition to promoting the Big Pharma abortion drug, the federal government also promoted the experimental Big Pharma CV19 jab. How did the jab turn out by the way? /super sarc
"“That is why the federal government needs to get involved.”"
I cannot believe the casual statement above about federal government needing to get involved. It reflects a complete lack of understanding of the federal government's constitutionally limited powers imo.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Since Congress has repeatedly proven that it is an enemy of the people imo, it is now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" ALL (exceptions?) state and federal lawmakers and executives in November. Patriots need to support hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, state lawmakers too, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will support him to quickly finish draining the swamp.
I don’t want to disrespect you in any way. I am trying to be clear enough that you understand my point of view even if you don’t agree once you do.
I think we both have more in common than the points on which we might disagree. And that is most important.
Take care FRiend.
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