MILWAUKEE, July 11,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Family Research Council Action
Chairman Tony Perkins, who is a
member of the RNC Platform Committee from Louisiana joined 18 of his fellow platform
delegates in signing and submitting a platform minority report to
the Republican National Committee.
The platform minority report is the only record to emerge from
the unprecedented, closed-door meeting of the 2024 Platform
Committee. The platform minority report records those who
stepped out of the cloak of secrecy to be on record as supporting
the unborn.
The report notes that language on the protection of unborn human
life, which has been included in each GOP platform for nearly 50
years, was removed from the 2024 RNC platform. FRC Action is
encouraging grassroots conservatives to express their support for
keeping the Republican Party solidly pro-life by signing a petition
to the RNC in support of the platform minority report.
Platform delegate signers include: Loran
Baxter (Alaska),
Alex Kolodin (Arizona), Susan
Ellsworth (Arizona),
Jim Dotson (Arkansas), Suzi
Voyles (Georgia),
Mark White (Hawaii), Mary
Smart (Hawaii),
Brad Sherman (Iowa), Tamara
Scott (Iowa), Tim Huelskamp (Kansas), Kristina
Smith (Kansas),
Tony Perkins (Louisiana), Kevin
Austin (North Carolina),
Lori Hinz (North Dakota), Steve
Nagel (North Dakota),
Sandye Kading (South Dakota), David
Barton (Texas),
Gayle Ruzicka (Utah), and Robert "Bob" Ide (Wyoming).
Perkins commented on this supplemental report:
"The 2024 Republican Platform is a fairly decent statement of a
campaign's priorities, but not the enduring principles of a party.
Notably, language on protecting unborn human life, which has been
included in each GOP platform for nearly fifty years, was removed.
This is why I joined 18 of my fellow platform delegates in
submitting a report to the RNC expressing our strong support for
the right to life. We stand with the two-thirds of Republicans who
say they want to keep or strengthen the GOP's pro-life plank.
The right to life is truly the right without which no other
right has any meaning," concluded Perkins.
The minority report states in part:
"The undersigned, a minority of the committee, elected to the
2024 National Republican Platform Committee, not agreeing in
totality with the majority, desire to express our views as
follows:
"Not having an opportunity to entertain amendments to the
'draft' platform document, we submit the following expression for
the continued protection of the unborn through support of a human
life amendment.
"For Republicans, from the very inception of our party, the
words of the Declaration [of Independence] took form in two
overarching moral propositions, that is, the rejection and
elimination of what our very first platform in 1856 called 'the
twin relics of barbarism,' slavery and polygamy. We note with sober
reflection how vast a cost the people of the United States paid for the achievement of
that platform's commitments, and how long a period passed before
those goals could be achieved. Today we observe the vitality of a
more recent but analogous set of commitments, embodied most
prominently in the promise of the Republican Party to preserve the
right to life of every human being from conception to natural
death. That commitment made its way into the platform of 1976,
twelve decades after that original session in Philadelphia. That commitment to a human life
amendment and a call for the Fourteenth Amendment's protection
application to children before birth has been repeated in every
platform since and, by this declaration of principle, we extend it
now.
"In the coming years, we pledge ourselves to continue to work
for the good of every child, every parent, and every family. We
rededicate ourselves to the core policy positions endorsed through
deliberation and transparency with ever-increasing clarity in
previous platforms, with respect to the funding of abortion
domestically and internationally, the expansion of alternatives to
abortion, support for credits for adoption and all children, ending
the exploitation of embryonic human beings, and above all
recognizing the application of 14th amendment protections to our
developing offspring. These are issues for the ages and not for any
single cycle in our national life," notes the report.
To read the full report, please visit:
https://www.frcaction.org/get.cfm?i=LK24G09&f=LK24G09
Attempts were made during the short proceedings to determine the
formal requirements of a platform minority report. Chairperson of
the committee, Tennessee Senator
Marsha Blackburn, refused to provide
an answer or guidance. Therefore, the above report was submitted to
the Chairman of the RNC, Michael
Whatley and the co-chair of the Platform Committee,
Congressman Mike Waltz.
To sign the FRC Action petition, please visit:
www.frcaction.org/report
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