{"id":2591,"date":"2024-07-17T21:14:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T04:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2024-07-17T21:14:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T04:14:57","slug":"rnc-official-nothing-in-our-platform-says-we-wont-ban-abortion-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/rnc-official-nothing-in-our-platform-says-we-wont-ban-abortion-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"RNC official: Nothing in our platform says we won\u2019t ban abortion nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2024\/07\/gop-republican-platform-fetal-personhood-abortion-ban\/\">reported<\/a>, though, leading legal scholars begged to differ: The platform invokes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/amendmentxiv\">Fourteenth Amendment<\/a>, which the GOP has, for decades, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/republican-party-platform-1984\">cited<\/a> as the key to enshrining <a href=\"http:\/\/as the key to fetal personhood since 1984,\">fetal personhood<\/a> in the law. That would amount to a\u00a0<em>de facto\u00a0<\/em>national abortion ban by establishing embryos as US citizens entitled to \u201cequal protection of the laws,\u201d among other rights.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there\u2019s proof that a top RNC official who helped craft the platform agrees\u2014and wants everyone to know that the party is <em>not<\/em> softening its increasingly extreme anti-abortion stance.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2024\/07\/rnc-platform-ed-martin-abortion-ban-softening-gop\/\">Mother Jones<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I reported, though, leading legal scholars begged to differ: The platform invokes the Fourteenth Amendment, which the GOP has, for decades, cited as the key to enshrining fetal personhood in the law. That would amount to a\u00a0de facto\u00a0national abortion ban by establishing embryos as US citizens entitled to \u201cequal protection of the laws,\u201d among &#8230; <a title=\"RNC official: Nothing in our platform says we won\u2019t ban abortion nationwide\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/rnc-official-nothing-in-our-platform-says-we-wont-ban-abortion-nationwide\/\" aria-label=\"More on RNC official: Nothing in our platform says we won\u2019t ban abortion nationwide\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[409,203,410,137,91],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-14th-amendment","tag-2024-election","tag-due-process","tag-gop","tag-national-abortion-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}