Dallas County Democrats
State Republican Platforms: Freedom Of Choice

These are excerpts from Platforms and Resolutions passed by various state Republican parties this year. They show how far out of the mainstream are the extremists that have taken over the Republican party.

• Texas: We urge the reversal of Roe v. Wade. We affirm out support for the appointment and election of judges at all levels of the judiciary who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life.
• California: To restore to the states the right to determine the abortion issue, we support the reversal of Roe V. Wade.
• Iowa: We believe that the Republican party should remain committed to being pro-life and seek reversal of Roe vs. Wade.
• Missouri: Therefore, the Missouri Republican Party supports: ... legislation overturning Roe vs. Wade and the appointing of Federal judges that are Pro-Life...
• South Carolina: We support the reversal of Roe v. Wade through judicial action or through passage of a Constitutional Human Life Amendment.
• New Hampshire: We therefore support a human life amendment to the Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make clear that the 14th Amendment's protections apply to unborn children.
• Georgia: We support a human life amendment to the Constitution, and We endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children, and We oppose using public revenues for abortion and will not fund organizations which advocate it, and We support the appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life. Republicans: Ending a Woman's Right to Choose:
• Idaho: We oppose the Clinton Administration's plan for use of taxpayers' dollars for abortions except to save the life of the mother.
• Illinois: The right to life is a fundamental human right, and though abortion continues to be a divisive issue, we stand in opposition to taxpayer funding of abortions. The Republican Party of Illinois supports those measures which, consistent with traditional moral principles and constitutional values, extend protection and respect for the unborn.
• Iowa: We believe in the sanctity of innocent human life from conception to natural death. We oppose the use of public revenues for abortion and call for elimination of government funding for organizations, which advocate or support abortion. We believe that all abortion is morally wrong and that the 14th amendment's protection applies to unborn children; therefore, abortion is unconstitutional. We reaffirm our support for appointments of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of human life. We endorse a required program providing information on alternatives to abortion, about possible mental and physical complications of abortion.
• Maine: [W]e advocate: ... Banning partial-birth abortions and requiring parental or judicial consent to perform an abortion on a minor.
• Minnesota: We believe the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed upon. We therefore reaffirm our support for a human life amendment to the constitution. We oppose using public revenues for abortion and will not fund organizations which advocate it.
• Mississippi: We believe the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We therefore reaffirm our support for a human life amendment to the Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children. We reaffirm our support for appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life.
• Missouri: We reaffirm our support for a human life amendment to the Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children.
• Nebraska: We believe the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed. We therefore reaffirm our support for a human life amendment to the Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children. We oppose using public revenues for abortion and will not fund organizations which advocate it. We reaffirm our support for appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of human life. Therefore, we oppose the testing or introduction of RU486 or other abortifacients.
• New Hampshire: We reaffirm our support for appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life.
• North Carolina: We believe that unborn children have constitutional rights to life and liberty after conception; therefore, we urge the United States Supreme Court to overturn its decision on Roe vs. Wade.
• North Dakota: Now therefore be it resolved: The North Dakota Republican Party in its 2000 Convention reaffirms its long-standing support of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, and the Republican Party Platforms, with respect to human rights and reaffirms its historic support for the sanctity of human life.
• Oregon: We therefore reaffirm our support for a human life amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children. We reaffirm our support for appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life. We believe that governmental policies, judicial decisions and statutes that permit, promote or fund services, such as counseling, contraception or abortion, to minor children, without prior parental knowledge and informed consent, to be an obviation of parental rights and responsibilities, and should therefore be opposed. ...we call for the addition to the Oregon Constitution Bill of Rights and to amend by the initiative process and enact by the people the following 32 words: We believe the rights, privileges, and immunities reserved to the people by the U.S. Constitution and by the states and common law of the State of Oregon shall be vested in natural persons at conception. [emphasis in original]
• South Carolina: ...the South Carolina Republican Party stands for: ... Legal recognition of the Right to Life. [emphasis in original] Accordingly, we believe that the Fourteenth Amendment's protection should apply to unborn children. The Party is totally opposed to chemical, surgical, or any method of abortion on demand and the use of public revenues to pay for abortions or to fund organizations which advocate abortion.
• Texas: The Party affirms its support for a human life amendment to the Constitution and we endorse making clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protection applies to unborn children.
• Utah: We believe the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed. Be it resolved, the 2000 Utah Republican State Convention calls upon Governor George W. Bush to choose a pro-life vice-presidential nominee. Be it further resolved, the convention calls upon Utah's delegates to the national convention to vote only for a pro-life vice-presidential nominee and to oppose any attempt to remove the pro-life plank from the party platform.
• Washington: All human beings, born and pre-born, are created equal... The protection of innocent life, from conception to natural death, must always take precedence in conflicts between inalienable rights. We support: ... The prohibition of the use of public funds to promote or provide abortion. We support: ... The provision of complete factual information to include a description of the procedure, the status of the unborn, and the availability of adoption services when an abortion is requested; and, once the information is provided, a two day waiting period for decision-making, before the procedure is conducted
• West Virginia: We vigorously oppose any use of public funds for abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or when the mother's life is threatened by pregnancy. We reaffirm our support for the election and appointment of judges at all levels of the judiciary who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life.
• Wisconsin: Republicans support legislation and other efforts that would re-establish legal protection for all innocent human beings from conception until natural death and affirm our support for the Human Life Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Be it further resolved that the Republican Party supports either legislation to establish legal protection to all human beings from conception until natural death, a specific Amendment to the Constitution to protect this right, and/or the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court

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