Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

In 1992, the candidate for President Bill Clinton expressed his wish that abortion

would be and I quote safe legal and rare. The phrase came to typify the

Democratic position on the issue of abortion until the party took a radical turn in the 2010s. Today, safe, legal and

rare better describes the Republican Party stance on abortion. In the aftermath of the GOP shifting

its platform on abortion and major

contenders for the vice presidential nomination echoing the new party line

Jonathan Van Merrin observed in first things that and I quote the decision

facing voters in this election may be between a pro-abortion

party and a pro-choice one, end quote.

He's right, the platform of the right to life which cannot be infringed. That's language that dates back to the

Reagan era. The platform also called for a human life amendment to the US

Constitution and legislation that clarified that the 14th Amendment protects

children before birth.

Well, the new platform was approved and pushed by former President Donald Trump,

reportedly without allowing for any debate.

According to Princeton's Robert George, the new platform is incoherent.

It invokes the 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause to suggest that,

now that Roe has been overturned, states are free to pass laws protecting unborn rights.

No longer is there mention in the platform of a fundamental right to life or a federal human life amendment.

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