The GOP Platform Is a Major Loss for the Pro-Life Movement

For decades, the Republican Party platform has invoked the unborn child’s “fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed” and called for a constitutional amendment and legislation “to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to children before birth.”

No longer. In its draft of a much-truncated platform, the GOP has gutted its language regarding abortion. It no longer mentions the fundamental right to life of the unborn, instead stating blandly that “we proudly stand for families and Life.”