To be consistent, the Republican Party today should strongly stand for the same 3 foundational principles, applying them to the grave issue of abortion instead of slavery.
There are substantial troubling changes in the national Republican Platform 2024, much shorter than 2016, speaks little on life and family issues, and opposes only Later Term Abortion.
Biden: "I'm going to restore Roe v. Wade." Trump: "I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. The Supreme Court just approved the abortion pill. And I agree."
The original public meaning of the term ‘person,’ the anti-abortion statutes, and public explanations of the 14th Amendment all support extending protections to prenatal life in originalist grounds.
In dictionaries and laws during the 1800s, a baby in the womb was recognized as a “person." Where there was evidence of a living baby in the womb, the duty of law was to protect that life.
To protect a woman’s “right” to abortion, France became the first nation to create a constitutional "guarantee" for women to intentionally take the lives of their own babies.
