I'm actually in favor of this shift in platform, although I certainly see why those who disagree would oppose.
Tend to agree. Roe v. Wade was a legal travesty.
Like the gun-grabbing Democrats patiently nibbling away at the 2nd, “incrementalism”: you take small bites. Something is better than nothing.
Trump wants to defund Planned Parenthood. Congress has done nothing, although there is a rational relationship can be show in such a law to a legitimate state purpose. There is no fundamental right for a mother to kill her baby.
Begin by banning third-trimester abortions and the particularly odious partial birth abortions, Trump opposes both, and that’s a good first day.
What’s wrong with the current platform?
THE SANCTITY AND DIGNITY OF HUMAN LIFE
Faithful to the “self-evident” truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children. We oppose using public revenues to promote or perform abortion or fund organizations which perform or advocate it and will not fund or subsidize health care which includes abortion coverage. We support the appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life. We oppose the non-consensual withholding or withdrawal of care or treatment, including food and water, from people with disabilities, including newborns, as well as the elderly and infirm, just as we oppose active and passive euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Republican leadership has led the effort to prohibit the barbaric practice of partial birth abortion, permitted States to extend health care coverage to children before birth. We urge Congress to strengthen the Born Alive Infant Protection Act by exacting appropriate civil and criminal penalties to health care providers who fail to provide treatment and care to an infant who survives and abortion, including early induction delivery where the death of the infant is intended. We call for legislation to ban sex-selective abortions – gender discrimination in its most lethal form – and to protect from abortion unborn children who are capable of feeling pain; and we applaud U.S. House Republicans for leading the effort to protect the lives of pain-capable unborn children in the District of Columbia. We call for a revision of federal law 42 U.S.C. 289.92 to bar the use of body parts from aborted fetuses for research. We support and applaud adult stem cell research to develop lifesaving therapies, and we oppose the killing of embryos for their stem cells. We oppose federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
We also salute the many states that have passed laws for informed consent, mandatory waiting periods prior to an abortion, and health protective clinic regulation. We seek to protect young girls from exploitation through a parental consent requirement; and we affirm our moral obligation to assist, rather than penalize, women challenged by an unplanned pregnancy. We salute those who provide them with counseling and adoption alternatives and empower them to choose live, and we take comfort in the tremendous increase in adoptions that has followed Republican legislative initiatives.
The discussion will be one side in hysteria and the other side’s arguments not being taken into consideration.
Unfortunately social conservatives are hell bent on self-marginalization no matter how many people tell them that’s exactly how to get absolutely nothing that they want and to not even be invited to the table in future policy discussions.
The day that platform change is made is the day I stop being a Republican.
Peace,
SR
Good luck, man. I’m in the same boat, wanting to de-emphasize the social component of the party in order to compete more. You’re about to get yelled at.
I don't know if I'm in FAVOR, but I'm certainly ambivilent.