The 2024 Republican National Convention’s Platform Committee has adopted former President Donald Trump’s GOP platform, the Trump campaign announced on Monday, including new language on abortion and the protection of the unborn.
That new platform’s abortion language is a significant departure from the party’s life messaging in 2016, since it no longer calls for federal protections for unborn babies and instead suggests that the matter is up to the states. The 2016 platform included the word “abortion” 35 times, while the 2024 platform merely includes abortion once.
The new language, under the subhead, “Republicans Will Protect and Defend a Vote of the People, from within the States, on the Issue of Life,” reads:
We proudly stand for families and life. We believe that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees that no person…
