Signed onto this letter asking for the restoration of strong, longstanding pro-life provisions in the Republican platform:

July 12, 2024 

Dear Republican National Convention Delegates: 

For the first time in decades, the Republican Platform retreats on life. Pro-life Americans are rightly outraged and gravely concerned. 

As drafted, the platform removes long-standing Republican promises on life, from prohibiting taxpayer funding for abortion to a Constitutional amendment to specific protections for unborn babies. 

Since 1976, the platform has supported a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution.

Since 1980, the platform has called for ending taxpayer funding for abortion. 

Since 1984, the platform has affirmed that the 14th Amendment already protects unborn children.  Beginning in 1996, the platform condemned partial-birth abortion. 

In 2004, language was added to protect babies born alive following failed abortions. 

In 2012, language was added to protect pain-capable babies. 

In 2016, language was added opposing federal funding for embryo harvesting. Since the Reagan Revolution, the party has spoken with an unambiguous voice – Republicans stand for life. 

Today, that promise has been watered down and ultimately compromised. As you gather in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, the eyes of conservatives across America are upon you. As delegates, ensuring a strong platform is your responsibility. You are the grassroots conservative leaders, entrusted by the conservatives of your states, to represent their values at the national level. 

This is the last opportunity to restore the Republican Party’s strong pro-life platform. You can restore the RNC’s pro-life platform. 

We encourage you to support the Platform Committee’s Minority Report, amendments that strengthen the pro-life resolve of the platform, and to vote down any platform that weakens the party’s pro-life stance.

Sincerely,

[List of signers]

 

 July 9, 2024

Kamala’s way in 

OPINION:

“At Essence, Black Democrats rally behind Biden and talk up Kamala Harris” (web, July 7) quotes Antjuan Seawright, a Black Democratic consultant, as declaring that if President Biden drops out of the race, choosing “anyone other than Kamala would be malpractice — and it would tear the party apart.”

As more and more elected Democrats urge Mr. Biden to withdraw and party leaders convene to plot alternatives, the president retreats into the defiant delusion that marks dementia. Most recently he insisted that only “if the Lord Almighty comes out and tells me” to get out of the race, “I might do that.”

While Mr. Biden debates whether to obey a voice from heaven, rest assured that Vice President Kamala Harris and other party leaders are not waiting for a sign in the sky to scheme Plan B.

Every day that the polls worsen and the election approaches, the appeal of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution becomes more alluring. The amendment provides that “Whenever the Vice President and a majority of [the Cabinet declare] … that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.”

Leading up to that moment, Ms. Harris and her co-conspirators would begin systematically leaking to the media more and more evidence of Mr. Biden’s cognitive chaos. A parade of party leaders would report that a clearly detached-from-reality Mr. Biden has irrationally rejected their pleas for his withdrawal or resignation.

And then, in collusion with Cabinet members promised a role in her upcoming administration, Ms. Harris would be able to seize by political fiat the office she never could reach through the popular vote and secure for herself the nomination of the party.

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