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Here's an explicit answer to what the platform should look like.

And you're mistaken about abortion and state power.

The right to life is God-given and therefore unalienable. Every government, every state, every level and branch of governance, has an imperative constitutional duty to protect innocent human life. According to the founders of this free republic we call America it's their primary raison d'être.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men..."

And, particularly, the Fourteenth Amendment spells out the explicit requirement, which isn't in any way optional, that the States protect innocent human life and provide for the equal protection of the laws FOR ALL PERSONS.

"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."

Here's an explicit answer to what the platform should look like.

So Tea Partiers should join the AIP, or copy it? And then Alan Keyes would be a Presidential candidate?

And you're mistaken about abortion and state power.

Unfortunately, I am not mistaken; abortion was legal in several States prior to Roe v. Wade, which basically made it legal in ALL States. Abortion had been a States-rights issue until the time the Supreme Court gave that issue and power to the Federal Government.

I am NO supporter of abortion, but the facts are that it was legal, and something for each State to decide before the Federal Government expanded its power base and nationalized the issue (in the wrong way, unfortunately). And because it's been declared - twice - at the Supreme Court level (once implicitly with Griswold v. Connecticut and once explicitly with Roe v. Wade) as a Constitutional right, it will take a Constitutional amendment to overturn. And the will of the nation is simply not there (2/3rds, basically).