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This will make it easier for other podcast listeners to find issues etc. Well, tumultuous times in which we live, change all around I see, says the old Christian hymn.

One of the things that I think pro-lifers hoped would never change was the strong stance for life

in the Republican Party platform.

It's simply a symbol, but maybe a powerful symbol

that in the political halls of power,

there are still those who seek to protect the unborn but that changed with the new GOP

platform. Welcome back to issues etc. I'm Todd Wilkin joining us to talk about the

GOP platform on social issues, Dr Robert George.

He's McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American

ideals and institutions at Princeton University.

He's author of several books including Embrio,

a Defense of Human Life, What Is Marriage, and Conscience and its enemies

confronting the dogmas of liberal secularism.

Dr George, welcome back. It's my pleasure. Thank you Todd.

Before we get into our subject, give us your thoughts about President Biden's decision

to not seek another term. Well, it was scarcely a decision.

President Biden was forced out his party's establishment and even more importantly its major donors

told him he had to go there was no way he

could win against president Trump in November without money and without support of

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