In a break with the tradition, the Republican party chose to debate their 2024 platform in closed meetings. While there was no media coverage, there were hints of things to come. Trump’s team spoke of streamlining the platform, and in particular, softening their stance on abortion.
Previously, the platform’s stance on abortion began with mention of unalienable rights being endowed by our Creator, stating “(We) assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed.” It went on to oppose taxpayer funding of abortion, sale of fetal body parts, and infanticide. It went on to add support for abortion survivors, such as myself, in stating that, “We applaud the U.S. House of Representatives for leading the effort to add enforcement to the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act by passing the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which imposes appropriate civil and criminal penalties on healthcare providers who fail to provide treatment and care to an infant who survives an abortion, including early induction delivery whether the death of the infant is intended.” Support for pain capable legislation was included, and the platform soundly denounced dismemberment abortions, sex-selective abortions, and abortions based on disabilities.
The 2016 platform remained unchanged in 2020 due to Covid. Monday, a party platform was voted in, branded as, “A Return to Common Sense”. While the dedication reads, “To the forgotten Men and Women of America”, the platform has clearly not remembered the forgotten 65-million-plus men and women who have been executed in the abortion holocaust. Who are these “forgotten”? Has the Trump campaign, and those on the Platform Committee, forgotten the preborn?
The only language in the new platform that directly pertains to life states, “We proudly stand for families and Life. We believe that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees that no person can be denied Life or Liberty without Due Process, and that the States are, therefore, free to pass Laws protecting those Rights. After 51 years, because of us, that power has been given to the States and to a vote of the People. We will oppose Late Term Abortion, while supporting mothers and policies that advance Prenatal Care, access to Birth Control, and IVF (fertility treatments).”
As a survivor of late-term abortion, I appreciate some of this…but cannot embrace the duplicity that says it’s perfectly fine to kill a child at 13 weeks, but not at 27 weeks. Life begins at conception, period. Any middle-school biology textbook will plainly show this. How can we “return to common sense” while ignoring basic biological facts? How can we “remember the forgotten”, while supporting procedures that kill countless humans, such as IVF. The IVF industry reports $35-billion-dollar profits annually, while such eugenics-based practices as sex-selection, eye color, skin color, and the like are their norm. Conservatives who don’t understand the practice may see it as “pro-life”, not knowing that it’s an industry, just like the abortion industry, that relies on the death of countless children. For every IVF baby that is born, 49 human children are thrown away. After the rest of these otherwise heathy IVF babies are created, those who don’t have the desired traits are discarded. In 2021, the CDC reported that 4,005,700 babies were killed, while only 2.3%, or 94,300, survived. I can’t, in good conscience, support the death of countless children while claiming to “proudly stand for families and life,”, as the new platform does. I don’t support the killing of some children, while championing the cause of others. As Dr. Seuss said, “…a person’s a person, no matter how small.”
Another thing the new platform clearly does, is distance itself from any hope of a federal personhood amendment. The prior platform document reads, “We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to children before birth.” Additional language in the previous party’s platform mentioned support of both mother and father being responsible for the child, pre-birth. There is no mention of such in the new document.
Where do we, the Constitutional Conservative Christian voters, go from here? The fear-mongering Democratic party has shown it’s true colors, serving the globalist agenda, seeking to control (and reduce) the population. Their intentions have been on full display during these past 3.5 years, and our economy, open borders, broken education system, and national deficit all speak to the atrocious plans they are promoting. However, there’s a great chasm growing in the Republican party, as some seek to appease the masses by embracing “tolerance”, pulling farther away from those of us who stand firm in our values. They seem to forget that the firm stance Trump took in his first campaign is what got him elected, and what we hoped he’d bring back to the table in ’24. Seems to me, all those attacks on him, his finances, and his character, have softened him.
Younger generations seek authenticity, and are revolted by lies. What will the effects of this be on Millenials, and Gen Z? How many votes will be lost to the hope of pandering to the masses, only to find that Americans seek truth, integrity, and transparency?
