Posted on 07/09/2024 11:19:58 AM PDT by Morgana
The abortion debate in America has been a defining issue for decades, drawing a clearly defined line between those who value life and those who, quite frankly, promote death. From the infamous Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, which opened the floodgates to the slaughter of the unborn, to the 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned it, conservatives have long held the moral high ground.
We have rightfully labeled the Democrat party as the “party of death”—it is their policies that have facilitated the killing of millions of innocent lives. Yet, with the latest compromises from the Republican National Committee (RNC), it is painfully clear that the GOP is now treading dangerously close to the same abyss. Image
For years, conservatives have relied on the Republican Party as the last political defense of pro-life advocacy. We have believed, or perhaps naively hoped, that the GOP would stand firm in defense of the unborn. But these recent developments indicate a severe compromise. By adopting Donald Trump’s stance of “leaving abortion to the states”—aka, unborn children don’t deserve equal protection under the law—the RNC has essentially abdicated its moral responsibility.
They have not just watered down their position, they have betrayed the very principles that set them apart from the Democrats.
Conservatives have always argued that life begins at conception, a belief rooted in both scientific fact and biblical truth. Democrats, on the other hand, have championed the “right to choose,” a euphemism for the right to kill. This fundamental difference has long defined our political landscape. Yet now, the Republican Party, in a bid to appeal to a broader base, has decided that a convictional stand for life is no longer expedient.
How long before they fully embrace the culture of death they once opposed?
In reality, the decision to leave abortion laws to the states is nothing short of a cop-out and it signals a dangerous trajectory in the Republican Party’s platform. The Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment, a federal, not state, document, protects the right to life. No state government can forgo the responsibility to protect innocent lives—it is a federal requirement. Allowing states to decide on the legality of abortion demonstrates that one does not believe in the equal protection of unborn life, or that unborn children are not fully human.
Can we, in good conscience, continue to support a party that is only a decade, if not less, behind the Democrats on this issue?
And how long before the GOP’s platform on same-sex marriage also becomes indistinguishable from that of the Democrats? The recent softening of language on same-sex marriage in the RNC platform is a clear indicator that this is already happening.
For decades, we have defended the doctrine of supporting the “lesser of two evils.” But what happens when the lesser evil becomes so egregious that it is no longer distinguishable from the greater evil? Are we to continue compromising our values for the sake of political expediency? The RNC’s latest move makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to support the Republican Party on the same grounds that we’ve rejected the Democrat Party.
Hyperbole? Conjecture? Absolutely not. The grim reality is that the Republican Party is no longer the defender of life and conservative values that it once was. It has become the party of compromise, a party willing to sacrifice its principles for the sake of political gain. This is not the party that once stood firm against the extreme lefists call “progress.” This is not the party that once championed the sanctity of life and the biblical definition of marriage.
What are we left with? A party that is rapidly losing any semblance of its moral compass. A party that is willing to placate the masses rather than stand firm in its convictions. How can we trust a party that is so willing to compromise on issues of such grave importance? The answer, I fear, is that we cannot. The Republican Party has become a lost cause, and it is time we faced that reality.
We need a more modern version:
“The perfect should never become the enemy of the mediocre.”
:-)
I’m second to none in being a pro-life, anti-abortion person, but the first step in taking back this country and eventually making more progress on the social issues is WINNING this election. Losing to Dementia Joe and his radical leftist gang does no good for anyone. Allowing the left to destroy the country just so we can quixotically retain some kind of posture of moral purity is asinine. I agree with Trump that returning the abortion issue to the states is the politically opportune way to play this issue right now.
“Estote ergo prudentes sicut serpentes...”
What a despicable twisting of the truth. The subject of abortion has been returned to the states where there is a greater chance of limiting and eventually eliminate abortion. If they aren’t up to the job of fighting abortion on a state by state basis I say get out of the way and let the rest of us work to actually save lives by convincing our neighbors, then town and then state. They keep up demanding a national law we lose everything
Stop deluding yourself. I have no interest in what the Republican Party has allegedly “stood for.” Go back and look at the history of federal spending and spiraling debt under Democrat and Republican administrations over the last 50+ years, and you’ll see that the GOP has defined itself as a party of bloated budgets and unlimited growth of government. And you can add endless military campaigns all over the globe as its defining characteristic in my adult lifetime.
I’ve spent my whole life trying to stop the Democrats from turning the USA into a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah. Now we’re apparently letting a lifelong Democrat come in and strip out all our conservative principles from the Republican party platform.
And for what? He says he’s going to build a wall, and deport people? Well guess what, he already promised that once before.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/11/politics/donald-trump-deportation-force-debate-immigration/index.html
Donald Trump promises ‘deportation force’ to remove 11 million. (2016)
Agree. But I call it Bullschtein.
We’re not voting for a bishop.
Are you sure that you’re on the right website?
The republican party passed Biden’s 2-3 trillion in pork barrel spending. Now if Trump manages to win, republicans will suddenly become budget hawks and won’t be able to find 10 billion for a wall to protect the country. People know the playbook too well.
A completely fabricated fib. And I’m being generous. Most importantly, completely removing the principle of debt reduction from the party platform means there’s no chance it ever even needs to be considered again. Something you are strangely in favor of, and vigorously defending. Hmmm.
Guy’s a TDS’tard.
Are you saying FR is no longer a “conservative” website? Because we are discussing the outrage that many pillars of conservatism (anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, reduced government debt and spending, etc) being removed from the Republican Party platform. Do you not care about those conservative principles?
THIS is exactly the kind of duplicitous malfeasance that made me stop giving a sh!t about the Republican Party or its platform.
Republicans just want to better manage the decline. I rarely vote for a republican at the Federal level these days, won’t play this red vs blue hat game when they’re actually the same. Think I saw where Amber Rose, of slut walk fame, is going be a speaker at the RNC, LOL. When does Caitlyn get up there? Maybe some principled conservative drag story hour? Yeah, no thanks.
I agree with you but I am beyond the Republican Party anyway. Whenever the RNC calls I hang up. I do not donate to them and I don’t care about them or the party. I don’t think Trump does either but that is the structure he has to run under.
The proof of this is that I haven’t even read the GOP 2024 national platform. I just respond to complaints about it by accepting them at face value.
Certainly appears that way. We’ve got a Republic circling the drain, courtesy of the fascists’, and he/she wants to splits hairs. There’s only one choice.... really.... and it ain’t the walking dead.
You’ve summed it up nicely.
Think about that, dude. Republican voters themselves got sick of the sanctimonious sh!t they were being sold by a political party that had no intention of ever following through on it when it mattered.
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