GOP Convention Delegates Approve Platform With Softened Abortion Plank, No Mention Of Gay Marriage

The Washington Post reports:

Delegates at the Republican National Convention approved a new party platform Monday that embraces presumptive nominee Donald Trump’s political positions, including a leave-it-to-states approach to abortion restrictions that abandons the party’s long-standing explicit support for national restrictions on the procedure. The new platform also abandons the old document’s opposition same-sex marriage, saying only that “Republicans will promote a Culture that values the Sanctity of Marriage.”

The Republican Party’s public abandonment of its long-standing position on one of the most controversial issues in American politics reflects the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in 2022 to overturn Roe v. Wade, the ruling that had protected abortion rights for half a century. Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Resource Council, said Monday afternoon that antiabortion advocates had scrapped plans for a floor fight on the abortion language in the platform due to the Saturday assassination attempt against Trump.

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According to the Post, anti-abortion activists are chasing prominent Republicans including Kari Lake around the convention center screaming “blood on your hands.”

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