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By James Oliphant and Helen Coster. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican Party released its platform on Monday that denies anti-abortion activists within the party the far-reaching language they ...
The party platform previously called for a constitutional amendment to protect unborn children. Now, it says abortion should be left to the states. Why the New Republican Platform Is Moderate on ...
The updated party platform won't be finalized until after Friday's vote by convention delegates, thousands of whom are expected to attend, Texas Republican Party communications director James ...
Ann Stone, as honoree at Women's eNews 21 Leaders 2012. Republicans for Choice was founded in 1989 by conservative fundraiser and activist Ann Stone, first wife of Roger Stone, [1] at the suggestion of Lee Atwater, a former chairman of the RNC, to counter the Republican Party's perceived increasing focus on anti-abortion candidates and political platform, and Stone brought this agenda to the ...
The 1976 Republican Party Platform was the first to include an anti-abortion stance. This came during the same year that the Hyde Amendment was passed. [ 71 ] Ronald Reagan 's run in the primary for the nomination played a role in getting an anti-abortion plank along with some other positions on other issues into the platform.
The Republican National Committee’s platform committee has adopted a policy document that reflects former President Donald Trump’s position opposing a federal abortion ban and ceding limits to ...
Abortion in Texas is illegal in most cases. [1] There are nominally exceptions to save the mother's life, or prevent "substantial impairment of major bodily function", but the law on abortion in Texas is written in such an ambiguous way that life-threatening or harmful pregnancies do not explicitly constitute an exception.
Evangelical confusion about the Republican party’s anti-abortion messaging began to set in ahead of the Republican convention, when the party endorsed a platform that says abortion is best left ...