The RNC’s abortion errors
By
Timothy P. Carney
July 16, 2024 4:29 pm
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MILWAUKEE — The Republican Party used to support federal protection of the unborn, and it explicitly opposed federal funding of abortion providers. As of this week, the party is now silent on those issues.
The party platform, approved by voice vote Monday at the Republican National Convention, also dropped its traditional statement, “The unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed.”
At the convention this week, elected Republicans and party delegates had no criticisms for the new plank on abortion — but their arguments generally ranged from incomplete to illogical.
Republicans defending the new abortion plank mostly argued that the new platform reflected the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade.
“Dobbs just sent it back to the states to let ‘We, the People’ decide,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said Monday at the convention. “I think it’s totally appropriate, and that’s pretty much what I think the platform says.”
This was the standard argument here in Milwaukee. “We spent 40 years saying this should be a decision of the states, and so it should be a decision of the states,” Florida state Rep. Randy Fine said.
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