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Posted on 07/08/2024 12:26:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A proposed Republican Party platform backed by presumptive presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, would soften the pro-life stance of the GOP, removing calls for federal restrictions to abortion access and language opposing same-sex marriage.
The 2024 Republican convention platform committee reportedly voted 84-18 on Monday during a closed-door session in favor of the proposed abortion plank, which does not call for a national abortion ban nor a constitutional amendment to protect unborn human life.
In 2016 and 2020, Trump ran on a platform that called for a constitutional amendment to protect unborn life and for a national abortion ban with some exceptions at 20 weeks into a pregnancy. But in the build-up of the 2024 race, Trump has openly expressed support for states to determine their own abortion laws and pushed back on social conservatives seeking to enact federal restrictions on abortion. Trump previously criticized Florida for passing a six-week abortion ban.
The document references the overturning of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had declared abortion to be a constitutional right. Trump nominated three of the justices involved in the decision to overturn Roe, and he has taken credit in his campaign speeches for that decision.
"After 51 years, because of us, that power has been given to the states and to a vote of the people," reads the document in part, according to a copy obtained by The Washington Post.
"We will oppose late term abortion while supporting mothers and policies that advance prenatal care, access to birth control, and IVF (fertility treatments).
Trump's platform draft also removes language condemning the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 decision making same-sex marriage a national right, according to The Post. The new draft doesn't weigh in on same-sex marriage and states that "Republicans will promote a culture that values the sanctity of marriage, the blessings of childhood, and the foundational role of families, and supports working parents."
Conservative Christian groups have lobbied the GOP to retain the socially conservative planks of the Republican Party platform, including its pro-life stance. The Washington-based Family Research Council launched the Platform Integrity Project along with several other Christian and conservative groups.
"Party platforms matter," FRC President Tony Perkins, a platform committee member, said in a statement. "They state a party's principles and priorities. … America is an unprecedented place of moral and cultural confusion and is in dire need of leadership and moral clarity."
"The Republican Party must once again communicate a clear and hopeful contrast between the parties by painting a message for voters on the foundational issues — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — not in pale pastels but in bright, bold colors."
Ralph Reed, founder and chair of the Faith & Freedom Coalition and a longtime Christian conservative political activist, believes the language is "unapologetically pro-life."
"The Republican Party platform makes clear the unborn child has a right to life that is protected by the Constitution under the due process clause of the 14th amendment," Reed told Politico. "That language has been in the GOP platform for 40 years and reflects the view of Ronald Reagan."
"While aspirational, it applies to both the states and the federal government," he added. "The proposed ban on late term abortion also implies federal as well as state action."
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a 2016 presidential candidate, told CNN that he supported making the Republican platform "reflect our nominee."
"Our nominee's position happens to be one grounded in reality. The reality of it is the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. What that basically means is now it's not states, it's voters at individual states who will get to decide how and what level they want to restrict abortion, if at all," he said.
"I also think it's important to remember that Democrats, their last platform, basically endorsed abortion paid for by taxpayers at any time without any restrictions. I think the question here is are they going to have a radical plank in their platform that requires Americans to pay for abortions at any time for any reason up until the moment of birth."
Perkins disagrees with Rubio.
"I'm stunned by Sen. Marco Rubio's capitulation to the forces of abortion," Perkins tweeted. "There are so many inaccuracies in his comments that I don't know where to start. First, a human life amendment has never been within political reach, it has always been aspirational and so it should remain. I can assure you that if the GOP abandons the unborn in the Party Platform, it will dampen Bible-believing, conservative voter enthusiasm and turnout."
Last week, Perkins sent a letter to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley opposing what he called an unprecedented "RNC Gag Rule," which he said "restricts access to the deliberations of various committees and subcommittees only to the credentialed delegates of those committees." The rule made it so "neither guests nor the press will be allowed to observe the platform committee or subcommitttee decisions of the Party's principles and policy priorities."
"The RNC Gag Rule heightens speculation that the GOP platform will be watered down to a few pages of meaningless, poll-tested talking points," Perkins lamented.
Child trafficking? I thought this was a biggy for Trump. I hope they still prioritize helping these poor children
RE: I’m asking if it’s THIS group
I think you’re referring to Christianity Today (which leans left).
You’ll have to read articles and columns from the Christian Post to decide for yourself if they are left or right wing.
1. Expose, dismantle the elitist cabal that have been the puppet-masters of politics, business, information and education for too long, a small yet powerful group of parasites hell-bent on enrichening themselves while morally/financially bankrupting the masses.
I’m sure it’s Christianity Today (how does anyone vote democrat that claims to be Christian? besides being frauds).
I think it’s the right move to leave it off the platform since it’s no longer a federal issue
Good, whether or not it’s in the party platform it will not become law. Not worth making the entire election about abortion. If the pro life constituents want it in the platform they have to work harder to get pro life people ans the pro life party elected. Such as it is, they got Roe overturned and Republicans are losing everywhere which suggest the pro life movement isnt a big enough force to win elections. Unfortunately. Be wise. Keep losing and you’ll be begging for Roe to be the law of the land.
I never understood this nonsense that Trump or the republicans could institute a national abortion ban even if they wanted to. They can’t because if they could then it would just be Roe vs Wade in reverse. But the Supreme court did away with any federal power to do that. So it can’t be done short of a constitutional amendment. And it would take a lot more than Trump or conservative to make that happen.
The talk of an abortion ban is nothing more than a democrat talking point designed to scare lefties into not voting for Trump.
Follow the link, it’s on the other thread, Breitbart.
this is all going on today folks
the GOP has gone full democrat, and you are fooling yourselves to think it any other way.
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And in case you didnt know, this is who is speaking at the GOP convention next week: Amber Rose
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a23357956/amber-rose-slutwalk-interview/
Say whatever needs to be said to win
A win is priority over any other
So if they want to soften abortion I’m 100% ok with it. I don’t care !!!
I want trump to win !!!
Each of these, like this one “2. CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY” needs some numbers. With as many as 30-60 million illegals, is that the target or is it the 16-16 under Biden, or is it just 2-3 million, or what?
Alternative, especially since the USSC already ruled it's a state issue, is drop this loser of an issue and try to win on everything else.
This we can't get one thing we really want so we will lose on everything else that matters agenda has to give in to some realities and practicalities. And there is a lot more immoral about the radical left agenda than just abortion.
It is a question that needs to be addressed by each state. It’s exactly where the question should be settled, no national decree.
RvW has been overturned. The single issue voters now need to shut up.
So POTUS Trump is telling America the 2020 election was not stolen. After all, why change policy if the only way they can beat you is through theft.
The supreme court has ruled that abortion is for each state to decide-it is not a fed issue any more, nor should it be. If people want to stop the infanticide, then they need to get to work in their own states. I live in Texas and I’m pro life. If my state was not pro life, I’d either move, or get busy calling reps to start a pro life movement-in my own state-not someone else’s...
I’m voting for a president-not a parish priest or bishop. I do not intend to concern myself about the morality of other republican voters as long as they are not committing crimes, assaulting children enabling illegals etc. Democrats are the ones who attack people for voting for repubs-why on earth should we do something like that? I may not like your morals, but I’m not going to say i don’t want you in my political party because of it...
There's too much money to be made.
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It actually has gone left under the leadership of Russell Moore.
Exactly
The Mattachine Society (initially called the Mattachine Foundation) began as a secret organization in Los Angeles in 1950, with their first Statement of Purpose drawn up in 1951. The group was founded by Communist organizer Harry Hay and other leftists including Bob Hull, Chuck Rowland, Dale Jennings, Konrad Stevens, James Gruber and Rudi Gernreich (Jewish Refugee). The Mattachine founders borrowed the initial structure of the organization from the Communist Party, and the leadership, the “fifth order” was anonymous, so members didn’t even know their names. The Mattachine Society went on to become one of several prominent groups organizing during the period of LGBTQ+ activism referred to as the Homophile Movement, with chapters opening up in a number of states. The Mattachine Society began publishing The Mattachine Review in 1955. Regional organizations also published their own periodicals and newsletters.
Around 1957, the National Mattachine Society moved their headquarters from Los Angeles to San Francisco. In a 1957 letter from the Mattachine Board of Directors, they informed the local chapters that the board had voted 5-2 in favor of revoking all area council charters and “getting out of the branch office business.” The letter went on to encourage the local Mattachine branches to continue working autonomously, which many did. The San Francisco Mattachine went on until 1967.
Background:
From https://jfk.blogs.archives.gov/2021/06/02/kameny-jfk-lgbtq-rights/
… By Stacey Flores Chandler, Reference Archivist
In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an Executive Order that changed the course of American history – and not just in the way the government planned. E.O. 10450 made “dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct” – including so-called “sexual perversion” – grounds for firing any federal government employee. The order opened the door for agencies and the military to find, fire, and even publicly out suspected “homosexuals” in what’s now called the Lavender Scare.
https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/10450.html is available for reading. You all are welcome to determine for yourselves if such grounds for firing a federal employee would lead to anything but a more reliable, normal and efficient workforce with a built-in awareness (morals) of what is necessary for contributing to and living in a safe and pleasant society; as opposed to living with the results of what groups like the Mattachine Society have laid on US over the last seventy years; on our following generations, on our domestic tranquility, common defense and our general welfare; all slipping away because a communist led attack on Christian based values made less than normally accepted behavior acceptable and now, celebrated.
From https://mattachinesocietywashingtondc.org/board-of-directors/
Charles Francis, President
...began his career in public affairs as a speechwriter and public relations officer at The Chase Manhattan Bank in New York where he worked as a speechwriter and media relations spokesman for the bank and Chase Chairman David Rockefeller. Over the course of his career, Francis served as a consultant to individuals such as Clark Clifford and New York labor mediator Theodore Kheel and for companies including Federal Express, Citicorp and, for twenty years, the Public Affairs Division of Exxon Corporation and ExxonMobil. He founded the now-defunct Republican Unity Coalition with Senator Alan K. Simpson as Honorary Chairman, and with President Gerald Ford and David Rockefeller serving on the group’s Advisory Board…
I think it behooves us all to keep this message Ellen Broidy, a member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), shared: “We didn’t want a piece of the pie. We wanted to reconstruct the whole damn bakery.”
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