GOP PLATFORM—STRONGLY
PROLIFE
Full text of strongly pro-life GOP
abortion platform released
LifeNews – Steven Ertelt –
8/23/2012
THE SANCTITY AND
DIGNITY OF HUMAN LIFE
Faithful to the
“self-evident” truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert
the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental
individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life
amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the
Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children. We oppose using
public revenues to promote or perform abortion or fund organizations which
perform or advocate it and will not fund or subsidize health care which includes
abortion coverage. We support the appointment of judges who respect traditional
family values and the sanctity of innocent human life. We oppose the
non-consensual withholding or withdrawal of care or treatment, including food
and water, from people with disabilities, including newborns, as well as the
elderly and infirm, just as we oppose active and passive euthanasia and assisted
suicide.
Republican leadership
has led the effort to prohibit the barbaric practice of partial birth abortion,
permitted States to extend health care coverage to children before birth. We
urge Congress to strengthen the Born Alive Infant Protection Act by exacting
appropriate civil and criminal penalties to health care providers who fail to
provide treatment and care to an infant who survives and abortion, including
early induction delivery where the death of the infant is intended. We call for
legislation to ban sex-selective abortions – gender discrimination in its most
lethal form – and to protect from abortion unborn children who are capable of
feeling pain; and we applaud U.S. House Republicans for leading the effort to
protect the lives of pain-capable unborn children in the District of Columbia.
We call for a revision of federal law 42 U.S.C. 289.92 to bar the use of body
parts from aborted fetuses for research. We support and applaud adult stem cell
research to develop lifesaving therapies, and we oppose the killing of embryos
for their stem cells. We oppose federal funding of embryonic stem cell
research.
We also salute the
many states that have passed laws for informed consent, mandatory waiting
periods prior to an abortion, and health protective clinic regulation. We seek
to protect young girls from exploitation through a parental consent requirement;
and we affirm our moral obligation to assist, rather than penalize, women
challenged by an unplanned pregnancy. We salute those who provide them with
counseling and adoption alternatives and empower them to choose live, and we
take comfort in the tremendous increase in adoptions that has followed
Republican legislative initiatives.
DEMOCRATS CALL FOR UNLIMITED
ABORTIONS
On the other hand, the
Democratic National Committee has officially rejected an
effort by pro-life Democrats to get the party to include them in its
platform that calls for keeping unlimited abortions legal and paid for at
taxpayer expense.
Kristen Day, executive
director of Democrats For Life of America, says the platform panel refuses to
acknowledge any difference of opinion on abortion within the Democratic
Party.
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