-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Earlier this week, the Republican Party released its 16-page “Make America Great Again” policy platform ahead of its national convention. As many news outlets pointed out, it did not explicitly call for a national abortion ban. Instead, it said that the party supports states establishing fetal personhood through the constitution’s 14th Amendment .
Related "Reckless" and "unsafe": The misinformation around "late-term abortion" is harmful, experts say “We believe that the 14th Amendment to the constitution of the United States guarantees that no person can be denied life or liberty without due process, and that the states are, therefore, free to pass laws protecting those rights,” the agenda read. Some media outlets reported this as if the GOP had “ softened ” its stance on abortion or that it “ backed away” from an abortion ban. But legal experts tell Salon this isn’t the case.
Instead, the party is still advocating for a national abortion ban — they are trying to conceal it using different language. "The key to their true agenda here is the suggestion that the 14th Amendment of the federal constitution somehow empowers states to ban abortion." “This is nothing more than a national abortion ban — not to mention a ban on birth control and IVF — hidden in plain sight,” Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, deputy director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, told Salon in a phone interview.
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