The New Platform

The Republican National Committee’s Platform Committee released the 2024 GOP platform yesterday. It’s a very different document compared to past years.

The 2016 platform was 66 pages long. This year’s platform is 16 pages and is presented as a series of 20 easy-to-digest “promises” that outline Donald Trump’s agenda for the next four years.

Not everyone is happy with the changes to the pro-life plank. Would I change some of it? Of course.

But it does clearly state, “We proudly stand for families and Life,” and it goes on to reaffirm the 14th Amendment’s guarantees that “no person can be denied Life or Liberty without Due Process.”

I am unapologetically pro-life. I pray for the day when the Supreme Court finds a right to life in the 14th Amendment so that every child is welcomed into this world and protected by the law.

The reality, however, is that we live in a constitutional Republic, and the American people just aren’t there yet. We have seen this in clear votes, even in conservative states.

Voters whose top issue is abortion have a very clear choice. But it is important to remember that you can’t govern and you can’t legislate if you don’t win elections.