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I said, "The official Republican party platform is pro-life, but the actions of the Republican party show they are really pro-abortion."
I did not state that "the official stance of the Republican party IS that there should be no abortion, period."
There is a big difference between having a pro-life platform and claiming that there should be no abortion, period.
The pro-life platform of the Republican party is this:
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The Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life
Faithful to the “self-evident” truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children. We oppose using public revenues to promote or perform abortion or fund organizations which perform or advocate it and will not fund or subsidize health care which includes abortion coverage. We support the appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life. We oppose the non-consensual withholding or withdrawal of care or treatment, including food and water, from people with disabilities, including newborns, as well as the elderly and infirm, just as we oppose active and passive euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Republican leadership has led the effort to prohibit the barbaric practice of partial-birth abortion and permitted States to extend health care coverage to children before birth. We urge Congress to strengthen the Born Alive Infant Protection Act by enacting appropriate civil and criminal penalties on healthcare providers who fail to provide treatment and care to an infant who survives an abortion, including early induction delivery where the death of the infant is intended. We call for legislation to ban sex-selective abortions – gender discrimination in its most lethal form – and to protect from abortion unborn children who are capable of feeling pain; and we applaud U.S. House Republicans for leading the effort to protect the lives of pain-capable unborn children in the District of Columbia. We call for a ban on the use of body parts from aborted fetuses for research. We support and applaud adult stem cell research to develop lifesaving therapies, and we oppose the killing of embryos for their stem cells. We oppose federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
We also salute the many States that have passed laws for informed consent, mandatory waiting periods prior to an abortion, and health-protective clinic regulation. We seek to protect young girls from exploitation through a parental consent requirement; and we affirm our moral obligation to assist, rather than penalize, women challenged by an unplanned pregnancy. We salute those who provide them with counseling and adoption alternatives and empower them to choose life, and we take comfort in the tremendous increase in adoptions that has followed Republican legislative initiatives.
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In other words, the Republican party's position on abortion is the "pro-life" position, which is political double-speak that means:
- If you pay for it without using government money, then you can kill the baby.
- if you do it without allowing an intact baby to put an arm or leg through the birth canal, then you can kill the baby.
- If you make sure you kill the baby inside the womb, then you can kill the baby.
- If you are not doing it because of the gender of the baby, then you can kill the baby.
- If you give the baby anesthesia, then you can kill the baby.
- If you are not doing it to harvest the stem cells, then you can kill the baby.
- If you wait a short while first, then you can kill the baby.
- If your parents give permission, then you can kill the baby.
That is much different than stating there should be no abortion, period.
I was not misrepresenting the Republican party.
