{"id":2287547,"date":"2024-07-01T19:10:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T23:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-brace-for-fight-over-party-platform-on-abortion-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T19:12:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T23:12:39","slug":"republicans-brace-for-fight-over-party-platform-on-abortion-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-brace-for-fight-over-party-platform-on-abortion-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans brace for fight over party platform on abortion &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-brace-for-fight-over-party-platform-on-abortion-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2287547&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the looming fight within the Republican \u200bParty over the party&#8217;s stance on abortion in their \u200bplatform. Conservative activists are concerned that the anti-abortion \u2064language \u200din \u200cthe platform could be \u200bdiluted, leading to a pushback against any potential changes. A group of anti-abortion\u200c leaders has\u200b written a letter to \u2062former President Donald Trump urging \u2063him to maintain \u200dthe \u2062existing stance against\u200b abortion\u200c in the GOP platform. There are \u2062fears that \u200bTrump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-carlson-confronts-mike-pence-on-tanks-to-ukraine-while-us-cities-rot-receives-shocking-response\/\" title=\"Tucker Carlson questions Pence on Ukraine tanks as US cities decay; Pence&#039;s response is surprising.\">recent comments suggesting<\/a> that abortion should be decided by states could influence the party&#8217;s national position. The decision on the party platform will be \u2062made in a closed-door session before the Republican National Convention, with expectations that it\u200b will be\u200b scaled\u200d back from \u2063the previous version. Despite concerns from social conservatives, some GOP \u200dexperts believe that the\u2063 issue of abortion in the platform is not significant, as\u2063 it \u200cis perceived as more of a symbolic gesture\u2064 than a concrete policy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">\n<div class=\"tdb-search-form-inner\"><input class=\"tdb-head-search-form-input\" placeholder=\" \" type=\"text\" value name=\"s\" autocomplete=\"off\" \/><button class=\"wpb_button wpb_btn-inverse btn tdb-head-search-form-btn\" title=\"Search\" type=\"submit\"><span>Search<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Republicans brace for fight over party platform on abortion<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> <a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/mabinty-quarshie\/\">Mabinty Quarshie<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-01T18:59:14-04:00\">July 1, 2024 6:59 pm<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1689709\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Conservative activists are sounding the alarm to counter efforts that the Republican platform could dilute anti-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>abortion<\/a> language \u2014 a departure from decades of precedence.<\/p>\n<p>In a preemptive move, a group of 10 anti-abortion leaders sent a letter to former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a>, pressuring him not to back away from language in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>GOP<\/a> platform against abortion. The drastic move is evidence of rising fear among conservatives that Trump\u2019s consistent statements that abortion should now be left up to states after the fall of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> could become the national stance of the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican platform has not been updated since 2016 and was re-approved in 2020. The more than 60-page platform included a federal abortion ban after 20 weeks, which Trump has not publicly said he supports. <\/p>\n<p>This time around, the platform committee will hold a closed-door session to determine the party platform a week before the Republican National Convention begins on July 15, which will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/29\/us\/politics\/trump-gop-platform.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> be scaled back from 2016. C-SPAN will not broadcast the meeting in another departure from precedence. <\/p>\n<p>The letter, obtained by the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, praises the former president for being the \u201cmost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-worthy-recipient-pro-life-group-names-trump-pro-life-person-of-the-year\/\" title=\"\u201cA Worthy Recipient\u201d- Pro-Life Group Names Trump Pro-Life \u201cPerson Of The Year\u201d\">pro-life president<\/a> in American history\u201d but then urges Trump to \u201cmake clear that you do not intend to weaken the pro-life plank.\u201d The letter was first reported by the<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-abortion-letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>New York Times<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe it is critical for voters to know that you and the Republican Party continue to stand for life,\u201d the letter states. The leaders also urged Trump to include language that supports a \u201chuman life amendment to the Constitution\u201d and legislation that clearly states the 14th Amendment\u2019s protection applies to \u201cchildren before birth.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Ralph Reed, chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition; Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America; and Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council were among the group of people who signed the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Dannenfelser emailed the letter to Susie Wiles, Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-to-launch-new-social-media-platform-in-next-couple-of-months-after-meetings-with-companies-report\/\" title=\"Trump To Launch New Social Media Platform In Next Couple Of Months After Meetings With Companies: Report\">campaign senior adviser<\/a>, on June 10. The SBA Pro-Life America leader remained supportive of Trump in a statement to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> but also pushed for anti-abortion language in the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order for us to keep the momentum and win in November, we must remain unified. Our only request is that the GOP platform retain a key principle as it has for 40 years, asserting a constitutional right to life for the unborn under the 14th Amendment,\u201d said Dannenfelser. <\/p>\n<p>But Trump has long signaled that publicly supporting a federal abortion ban could cost the GOP the White House after the GOP faced stinging losses in 2022 and 2023. He, and by extension, his campaign, has instead insisted that Democrats are \u201cradical\u201d on abortion while maintaining that each state should decide how far to limit abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump has long been consistent in supporting the rights of states to make decisions on abortion,\u201d said Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign\u2019s national press secretary, in a statement that did not directly address the letter\u2019s concerns. \u201cJoe Biden and the Democrats are radically out of touch with the majority of Americans in their support for abortion up until birth and even after birth, and forcing taxpayers to fund it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have successfully run on defending abortion rights since the Supreme Court struck down <em>Roe<\/em> in 2022. Fearing that another abortion theme election cycle could sink his campaign, Trump has tried to walk a fine line between bragging over helping overturn <em>Roe<\/em> by nominating three conservative Supreme Court justices while trying to appear liberal on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Toning down the GOP\u2019s platform stance on abortion could help to prevent attacks on abortion from Democrats when the Republican National Convention is held in Milwaukee later this month. Wiles and Chris LaCivita, a Trump campaign senior adviser, alluded to preventing attacks from Democrats in a memo sent out last week. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublishing an unnecessarily verbose treatise will provide more fuel for our opponent\u2019s fire of misinformation and misrepresentation to voters,\u201d the pair wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, was not one of the signees of the letter to Trump but she claimed that the scaled-back GOP platform was not an issue for her organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe length of the platform is not a concern for Pro-Life voters. It\u2019s not the number of words,\u00a0but the intent that matters,\u201d Hawkins said in a statement.\u201d If the GOP wants to succinctly pledge to protect life in law and in service, from conception to natural death, as well as end the weaponized abuse of federal programs and agencies in support of abortion and cut\u00a0 taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood and other abortion vendors, that\u2019s a solid agenda worthy of support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the <em>Washington Examiner,<\/em> Kristi Hamrick, vice president of media and policy for Students for Life of America, claimed that a lack of definitive language in support of life would be a problem for social conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are saying to the RNC leadership is the goal should be a strong defense of life,\u201d said Hamrick. \u201cTo water it down or to insinuate that the goal is less than that, that would be the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom our perspective, if you\u2019re running for federal office, you should have a federal plan for dealing with the human rights issue of our day,\u201d Hamrick added, pushing back against claims that abortion should be left to states to decide.<\/p>\n<p>Although conservatives may be anxious over what happens to abortion in the party platform, the decision to limit the amount of infighting is a wise choice, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rick_wiley\/status\/1807046647609774106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Republicans<\/a>, who are itching to retake the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it will be a missed opportunity to guide the direction of the Republican Party over the next four years, it\u2019s a smart move in the interim since the Trump campaign and RNC must deal with a small but vocal faction of social conservatives who want the GOP to take politically stupid positions on gay marriage and abortion,\u201d a GOP strategist who requested anonymity to speak candidly said. \u201cA televised, gavel-to-gavel platform committee meeting would surely be a distraction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump allies, Randy Evans, a former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg under Trump; Russell Vought, a former Trump administration Office of Management and Budget director; and Ed Martin, president of the right-leaning Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, are heading the platform committee guaranteeing Trump\u2019s wishes will be fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Yet some GOP experts remain unfazed by whether abortion is in the party platform, citing the toothless nature of the endeavor. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe official platforms of both parties have become meaningless in the grand scheme of campaigns and elections as few undecided voters actually make their decision based on the platform,\u201d said Dennis Lennox, a Republican consultant. \u201cThe only people who care about the platform are the influence groups who seek to put something in the document and rank-and-file activists, who view the platform as some kind of creed or holy writ to attack fellow Republicans in primaries and races for intra-party offices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1689709\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1689709\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<ul class=\"tdb-tags\">\n<li><span>Tags<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abortion\/\">Abortion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republican-national-convention\/\">Republican National Convention<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rnc\/\">RNC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/roe-v-wade\/\">Roe v. 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The platform committee will meet in a closed-door session before the Republican National Convention, and there are concerns about the platform being scaled back. Some Republicans believe that focusing on abortion in the platform could be a distraction from more important issues. Trump&#8217;s allies are leading the platform committee, ensuring that his preferences are reflected in the final platform. Despite the controversy, some GOP experts believe that the party platform is not a significant factor in elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":2287548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/iowa-supreme-court-abortion.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4310,4004,33588,3756,32076],"class_list":["post-2287547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abortion","tag-fight","tag-party-platform","tag-republicans","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/iowa-supreme-court-abortion.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2287548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}