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HLA, Pro-Life Language Discarded!
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Birth Control and IVF Endorsed!
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Opposition to Sodomite “Marriage” Dead!
The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts news release…
In 2024, for the first time in more than a half a century, the Republican Party Platform will not include support for the Human Life Amendment (HLA). For twelve presidential election cycles, from 1976 to 2020, the party endorsed a federal constitutional amendment to protect the right to life of pre-born children.
Since 1984, Republicans have also called for the extension of Fourteenth Amendment guarantees to the unborn.
Now, in 2024, all of that has been discarded at the insistence of the Donald Trump Campaign.
The explicit pro-life language of the 2016 and 2020 platforms, which read: “…we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed” has also been excised from the 2024 platform.
Incredibly, the new 2024 Republican Platform, for the first time in history, actually endorses contraception — most hormonal forms of which are abortifacient — and human embryo destructive In Vitro Fertilization (IVF).
In another defeat for proponents of Biblical and natural law morality, the defense of traditional marriage has been jettisoned, along with the claim for conscience rights for those who refuse to serve same sex ceremonies.
The states’ rights abortion platform, adopted on July 8th, reads: “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).”
In a closely related development, a Trump favorite, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, has apparently been dropped from the VP shortlist.
President Trump told Brian Kilmeade on Fox News that the North Dakota six week abortion ban, which Burgum signed into law, is “a little bit of an issue.”
So, for the first time since Roe v. Wade, a strong pro-life position is now a disqualifier for Republican national office.
Two current prospects for Vice-President — U.S. Senators J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) — have abandoned their previous pro-life positions to endorse the continued legality of the lethal abortion drug mifepristone, which, according to the Guttmacher Institute, killed 642,700 innocent children in 2023.
Mifepristone is now the most common form of abortion in America.
The Catholic Action League called the new Republican platform a “catastrophic defeat for pro-life America, the consequence of a moral revolution in the Republican Party.”
Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: “What generations of Big-Tent Rockefeller Republicans have failed to do — eviscerate the party’s forthright pro-life platform — the Trump Campaign accomplished overnight, with barely a murmur of opposition from establishment pro-life groups.
Pro-lifers who acquiesce in this do themselves, the cause, and President Trump, for that matter, no favors.
Political figures who dynamite their base imperil their future.
The more President Trump, and other Republican leaders, distance themselves from the pro-life movement, the greater the likelihood of alienating the base, dividing the party, depressing turnout, diminishing enthusiasm, and reducing the number and commitment of grass roots, ward and precinct level campaign workers.
This could have tragic consequences in November.
President Trump believes, obviously, that given the depravity of Biden and the Democrats, pro-lifers have nowhere to go. This makes them a powerless interest group, devoid of leverage or influence, who can be ignored with impunity.
He must be disabused of this notion. Countervailing pressure is the order of the day.
Pro-lifers should complain long and loudly about this pro-abortion coup on the Republican Platform Committee. They should warn that this could be a deal breaker for many of their activists.
Instead of making excuses, it is time for pro-life leaders to speak to the Trump Campaign in what the Soviets used to describe as a ‘frank and comradely manner.’
President Trump, of all people, certainly understands direct language.”
