I couldn’t agree with that more. That statement of policy has nothing to do with reading the 14th the way you want it read. That statement calls for a Constitutional Amendment banning abortion, and for legislation, which wouldn’t be needed if abortion were already banned under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution as it now stands.
Well, the platform calls for the judicial branch and the legislative branch to adhere to their sworn duty to protect innocent persons in the womb. The only thing I’ve added is a demand that the Executive, who is in his person one entire co-equal branch, to do the same. Seems reasonable to me.
Even Harry Blackmun agreed, in the wording of Roe, that if the unborn are persons, they are to be accorded protection under the Fourteenth Amendment.
The only problem is that he, and many others, insensibly and arbitrarily decided that a baby isn’t a person. All science, all common sense, dictates otherwise. Every human being ever born was a child in the womb. There has never been a human being since Adam and Eve that didn’t come from the womb. You have to be either dishonest or an idiot to argue that an unborn child is not a person.
Everything depends on this simple point.