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Trump proposes GOP platform that softens abortion stance despite pleas from Christian conservatives
Christian Post ^ | 07/08/2024 | Michael Gryboski

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.


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1 posted on 07/08/2024 12:26:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Is Free Repubkic unstable for everyone or is it just my computer?


2 posted on 07/08/2024 12:28:26 PM PDT by GOPJ (Aborti)
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To: GOPJ

Seems to be working fine for me today. Maybe restart your router/modem, I do that every few weeks. I check other devices and browsers; worst case, I’ll clear cache. Haven’t had to do that for many months.


3 posted on 07/08/2024 12:31:28 PM PDT by Reno89519 (I'll go out on a limb: Trump & Gabbard 2024 or Trump & Sanders 2024)
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To: GOPJ
Its not just you...


4 posted on 07/08/2024 12:32:31 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump put in place people who rightfully kicked RVW back to the states. He’s done more to save the unborn than the clowns on capital hill combined.

Sorry, not demanding a purity test for this election.

It’s Trump or tyranny.

Get fiesty after he wins. Our country is being overrun!


5 posted on 07/08/2024 12:33:20 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is the platform listed in its entirety? Is it completely under Trump’s control or is he stuck with what the organization has laid out. I’d love to see the whole platform, see that it is speaking to each of his points he’s been making. I’d also like to see how it resolves several topics where he’s given disparate answers—End H1B or Keep and Increase it, as one example.


6 posted on 07/08/2024 12:33:26 PM PDT by Reno89519 (I'll go out on a limb: Trump & Gabbard 2024 or Trump & Sanders 2024)
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To: SeekAndFind

All for it.

He needs to get elected and that means not turning off the middle of the road voters. After he gets elected, he can push for whatever form of pro-life policies he chooses. But if Trump is not elected, there will be NO such policies from a Democrat. Getting Trump elected is the ONLY non-negotiable position.


7 posted on 07/08/2024 12:33:55 PM PDT by mairdie (2019 - Melania Fashions - Torelli Trumpet Concerto in D https://youtu.be/2jnS-UhdcEM)
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To: Reno89519

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4249738/posts?page=2#2

The platform is as follows:

1. SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION

2. CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY

3. END INFLATION, AND MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN

4. MAKE AMERICA THE DOMINANT ENERGY PRODUCER IN THE WORLD, BY FAR!

5. STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER

6. LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS!

7. DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS

8. PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE, RESTORE PEACE IN EUROPE AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY — ALL MADE IN AMERICA

9. END THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

10. STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC, DEMOLISH THE FOREIGN DRUG CARTELS, CRUSH GANG VIOLENCE, AND LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDERS

11. REBUILD OUR CITIES, INCLUDING WASHINGTON DC, MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL AGAIN.

12. STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE OUR MILITARY, MAKING IT, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD

13. KEEP THE U.S. DOLLAR AS THE WORLD’S RESERVE CURRENCY

14. FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE

15. CANCEL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE AND CUT COSTLY AND BURDENSOME REGULATIONS

16. CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR POLITICAL CONTENT ON OUR CHILDREN

17. KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS

18. DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN

19. SECURE OUR ELECTIONS, INCLUDING SAME DAY VOTING, VOTER IDENTIFICATION, PAPER BALLOTS, AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP

20. UNITE OUR COUNTRY BY BRINGING IT TO NEW AND RECORD LEVELS OF SUCCESS


8 posted on 07/08/2024 12:35:09 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Unless I missed it, there’s nothing about abortion.


9 posted on 07/08/2024 12:36:21 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: TheWriterTX

Sorry, not demanding a purity test for this election.

It’s Trump or tyranny.

Get fiesty after he wins. Our country is being overrun!

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Three thumbs up!

It’s just like the stupid GOPe to do something like this.


10 posted on 07/08/2024 12:38:42 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: SeekAndFind

isn’t the christian post a libtard rag?

I’m hugely pro life but I can say, unequivocally, we need to WIN in November and disarming the left on abortion helps us


11 posted on 07/08/2024 12:39:40 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: SeekAndFind

The issue of abortion one way or the other should not be part of Trump’s platform/campaign.

The wisest choice (and the Constitutional choice) is for the Federal gov’t to be completely silent on the matter. Let matter devolve back to the states where it should have been all along.


12 posted on 07/08/2024 12:40:11 PM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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To: TheWriterTX
This is my thought as well. As a Christian I have my druthers, but I also understand we don’t have the power to do what we’d honestly like, so talk of amendments and such as simply not on the table at the moment.

To that end, sending Roe back to the states has helped, and so our goal ought to be to do likewise with gay “marriage” as well: send it back to the states and let the states decide one way or the other.

Until we have a majority of power enough to enact these things nationally, having the discussion to do so is moot at best and detrimental at worst.

Trump’s got it right here. You can’t win with a royal flush when the best you can get this hand is a full house.

13 posted on 07/08/2024 12:40:22 PM PDT by cross_bearer_02
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To: spacejunkie2001

RE: isn’t the christian post a libtard rag?

Have you actually read their articles?


14 posted on 07/08/2024 12:40:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Reno89519
Maybe restart your router/modem, I do that every few weeks.

That's a good idea even if things are working today. thanks.

15 posted on 07/08/2024 12:41:11 PM PDT by GOPJ
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To: SeekAndFind

Alito was right - he returned the issue to the democratic processes in the states, where it was before Roe, and where it belongs.

Trump will be more of a unifier endorsing it be left that way.

Roe made it a “national” and divisve issue.

So would any federal legilsation or mandates either way.

Being part of the United States should be understood as we agree to disagree on some things, leaving some things to the states and leaving some things to our own Liberty. Agreeing to THAT should be lifted up, isntead of trying to federalize things all the time. Conservatives demanding federal laws sound just like the progreeives/Lefists/Dims sometimes - “we’re gonna make everyone do it our way”.


16 posted on 07/08/2024 12:42:47 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: GOPJ

“Is Free Repubkic unstable for everyone or is it just my computer?”

Are you logged in?

(I think it’s my turn to ask the question.)


17 posted on 07/08/2024 12:44:56 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The abortion issue has been sent back to the states, where it always belonged. Each state has its own laws on abortion - and that’s how it should be. This is not a matter for Congress or the president - it’s a matter for governors and state legislatures.


18 posted on 07/08/2024 12:46:42 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Indy Pendance

Thanks! Do you have the source link as well?


19 posted on 07/08/2024 12:49:09 PM PDT by Reno89519 (I'll go out on a limb: Trump & Gabbard 2024 or Trump & Sanders 2024)
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To: SeekAndFind

did you notice my question mark? one of these christian publications is very liberal; I’m asking if it’s THIS group


20 posted on 07/08/2024 12:50:31 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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