(Oregon Right to Life) — The Democratic National Convention (DNC) has approved its new Democratic party platform. The document espouses the most pro-abortion position in American history.
“The Democratic Party’s fanatical support of unlimited abortion—anytime, anywhere, and for any reason—is absolute and fundamental to the party’s identity,” National Right to Life president Carol Tobias said in a press release Monday night.
The 2024 platform (which repeatedly refers to President Joe Biden as running for re-election despite the fact that Biden dropped out of the race late last month and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris), touts abortion as a priority for the Democratic party.
The 92-page document uses the word abortion 13 times, not counting euphemisms like “reproductive freedom” and “reproductive health care.”
“President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Democrats are fighting back to restore reproductive freedom for every woman in every state,” the party platform reads, adding that Biden has “signed three executive orders and a presidential memorandum” promoting the expansion of abortion nationwide.
The platform also highlights the Democratic party’s work paving the way for pharmacies to dispense the abortion pill and making it easier for military members and their families to get abortions.
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“The Democratic Party’s Platform represents the most extreme policy positions of the party,” Tobias said in the Monday National Right to Life press release. “Kamala Harris and Tim Walz would expand the killing of preborn babies up until the moment of birth and use our tax dollars to pay for it.”
Tobias also pointed out that the platform promises to repeal the 1977 Hyde Amendment, which is meant to bar the government from using federal funds to bankroll abortions. Tobias added that, if elected, Harris and her running mate Tim Walz “would also promote the deaths of preborn babies using chemical abortions without in-person doctor visits for women — endangering the lives of women.”
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in an August 19 press release that the platform uses the word abortion “almost three times more than the 2020 platform.”
She also referenced recent comments by Biden administration transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, who suggested that legal abortion makes men “more free.” Dannenfelser further argued that what Democrats really want is “a national all-trimester abortion mandate – imposing abortion on demand in the seventh, eighth and ninth month of pregnancy, paid for by taxpayers, in all 50 states.”
To date, neither Harris nor Walz have said they would support an abortion limit at any gestational age.
“Every voter deserves a clear answer from every candidate on where – if anywhere – they draw the line,” Dannenfesler said.
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News of the Democratic Party’s newly approved platform comes after the 2024 Republican National Committee’s platform drew criticism from pro-life advocates for its watered-down language on abortion.
While the Democratic Party appears to be unapologetically leaning into its abortion rhetoric, the Trump-led Republican Party has largely distanced itself from the issue, repeatedly suggesting that the matter is best left to individual states to decide.
Republicans’ new platform, approved by the Republican National Convention last month, contains a very short passage about abortion that emphasizes the role of the states in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision that overturned the federal “right” to abortion.
Notably absent from the new document, however, is the type of explicit pro-life language found in the 2016 GOP platform. The older platform included the assertion that “the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed,” and called for “a human life amendment to the Constitution.” Neither phrase is found in the new GOP platform.
Pro-life advocates have expressed serious disappointment with the scaled-down platform.
However, leaders in the national pro-life movement continue to emphasize that the current Democratic Party – and the prospective Harris-Walz administration – represent a far greater threat to innocent unborn lives through their full-throated support for eliminating meaningful pro-life protections nationwide. Moreover, they note that the 14th amendment language in the Republican platform still leaves room for meaningful pro-life legislation at the federal level.
