RNC committee approves Trump-influenced 2024 GOP platform with softened abortion language
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The Republican National Committee's 2024 platform, approved by its platform committee and released Monday, is influenced heavily by presumptive presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump, and in a change from prior years, it backs the rights of states to make their own abortion laws.
The 2016 RNC platform mentioned the word "abortion" 35 times and backed a constitutional amendment to ban abortion: "[W]e assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed," the RNC's 2016 platform said. "We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to children before birth."
The Republican Party did not release a platform in 2020. And the 2024 platform only mentions the word once.
