共和党全国委员会(Republican National Committee)正在起草一份2024年的党纲，该党纲可能会改变共和党在堕胎、同性婚姻和移民等关键问题上的立场——改革可能会反映他们的领导人的信仰:前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)，党纲委员会成员和特朗普的盟友表示。
2016年，共和党-在首次提名特朗普的路上-采取了严格、保守的态度平台围绕性别和性取向问题，反对该党一些较为温和的派系软化这种语言的努力。一个相同的平台在2020年获得批准，当时新冠肺炎疫情使党委难以召集和调整语言。在北卡罗来纳州夏洛特举行的大会上，特朗普第二次被选为该党的提名人。
一个政党的政纲清楚地概述了它在国内外政策上的立场，但它没有约束力，也不会直接影响当选官员或候选人的工作。特朗普在2016年和2020年竞选的这一平台支持实施为期20周的联邦堕胎禁令的立法。自20世纪60年代以来共和党的政纲20世纪80年代明确表示支持一项宪法修正案，该修正案将维护人类生命的神圣性和保护，并延伸到未出生的儿童。
现在，在2024年，共和党将召开会议，编写自两年前多布斯裁决推翻堕胎的宪法权利以来的第一个平台。在建立由前总统重塑的政党的理想方面，这项计划可能会发挥巨大的作用，前总统一直明确反对联邦禁令，并倾向于将这个问题留给各州解决。
特朗普在生育权问题上的立场让一些反堕胎活动人士和RNC成员感到担忧，他们担心今年对“生命权”修正案的呼吁会被剥夺。
前总统的高级顾问正计划彻底检查和减少平台，以便它将“符合”前总统的“美国未来的愿景”，根据一个备忘录这份报告在6月份被送到了该党的政纲委员会，由美国广播公司新闻获得。
“他以历史性的方式赢得了(2024年初选)，”特朗普的一名高级顾问告诉美国广播公司新闻。
“他是当事人。但这也反映了选民的意愿，”这位顾问补充道。“我预计其中一些将会出现在平台中。”
美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)周日报道，佛罗里达州参议员马尔科·卢比奥是特朗普竞选伙伴的最大竞争者之一，他支持从共和党的纲领中取消堕胎禁令。
“嗯，我认为我们的平台必须反映我们的提名人，而我们的提名人的立场实际上恰好是基于现实的，”卢比奥说。“事实是最高法院推翻了罗伊诉韦德案。这基本上意味着现在不是国家了。各州的选民将决定如何以及在何种程度上限制堕胎，如果有的话。有些州会有限制。有些州不会。因此，我希望我们的政纲能反映我们的提名人。”
据几位知情人士透露，一个新平台的草案语言尚未分发给大多数平台委员会成员或一般RNC成员，尽管经过了多次对话和讨论游说团在与特朗普的问题上，关键倡导团体的领导人和一些个人一直在与盟友合作。
平台委员会于7月7日晚开始在密尔沃基召开会议，根据与美国广播公司新闻共享的时间表，会议定于周一和周二举行。委员会和全体成员通过的方案将于7月15日在密尔沃基召开的全国代表大会上向全RNC公布。
几个星期以来，一些在社会上更保守的RNC成员和主要的反堕胎团体一直对任何可能削弱该党在堕胎问题上的立场的平台审议直言不讳。
但这些努力在本周达到了白热化。家庭研究委员会的托尼·帕金斯是RNC平台委员会的成员，他说如果委员会软化堕胎的语言，他将领导一项在平台上整理“少数派报告”的工作，他声称这将会发生。
家庭研究委员会联合其他几十个保守团体，刚刚发起了一个“平台完整性项目“它”寻求与RNC和特朗普竞选团队合作，建立一个开放的进程，这将有助于确保维护共和党坚定保守的政纲，其中包含长期以来的反堕胎、反家庭和亲以色列的立场。"
2024 RNC platform could alter the GOP's abortion position for the first time in decades
The Republican National Committee is drafting a 2024 party platform that may usher in changes to the GOP's positions on key issues like abortion, same-sex marriage and immigration -- reforms that will likely reflect the beliefs of their leader: former President Donald Trump, platform committee members and Trump allies said.
In 2016, the Republican Party -- on their way to nominating Trump for the first time -- adopted a strict, conservativeplatformaround issues of gender and sexual orientation against the efforts by some of the party’s more moderate faction to soften that language. An identical platform was approved in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic made it difficult for party committees to convene and adjust language. Trump, during that convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, was chosen as the party’s nominee for a second time.
A political party’s platform distinctly outlines its positions on foreign and domestic policies, but it is not binding and doesn’t directly impact the work of elected officials or candidates. That platform, which Trump ran on in 2016 and 2020, supports legislation that would impose a 20-week federal abortion ban. The Republican platform since the1980shas articulated support for a constitutional amendment that would assert the sanctity and protection of human life, extending to unborn children.
Now, in 2024, the GOP will convene to write the first platform since the Dobbs decision overturned the constitutional right to an abortion over two years ago. The plank could play an outsized role in establishing the ideals of a party reinvented by the former president, who has been clear about his opposition to a federal ban and his preference for this issue to be left up to the states.
Trump’s position on reproductive rights has worried some anti-abortion activists and RNC members who have expressed concern that the call for a "right to life" amendment would be stripped from the platform this year.
The former president's top advisers are planning to overhaul and reduce the platform so that it will be "in line" with the former president's "vision for America's future," according to amemosent to the party’s platform committee in June, that was obtained by ABC News.
"He won [2024 primary elections] in a historic fashion," a senior Trump adviser told ABC News.
“He is the party. But it also reflects the will of voters,” the adviser added. “I anticipate some of that will be in the platform.”
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, one of the top contenders to be Trump's running mate, on CNN Sunday, backed stripping the abortion ban from the GOP platform.
"Well, I think our platform has to reflect our nominee, and our nominee's position actually happens to be one grounded in reality," Rubio said. "The reality of it is the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. And what that basically means is that now it's not states; it's voters at individual states who will get to decide how and to what level they want to restrict abortion, if at all. Some states will have restrictions. Some states will not. And so, I hope that our platform will reflect our nominee."
Draft language for a new platform has not yet been circulated to most platform committee members or general RNC members yet, according to several people familiar with the process, though a number of conversations andlobbyingon the issues with Trump allies have been ongoing among leaders of key advocacy groups and with some individuals.
The platform committee began convening in Milwaukee on the evening of July 7 and has meetings scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, according to a schedule shared with ABC News. What the committee and full membership adopt will then be unveiled to the full RNC at their national convention beginning on July 15 in Milwaukee.
For weeks, some more socially conservative RNC members and leading anti-abortion groups have been vocal about any platform deliberations that might water down the party’s stance on abortion.
But those efforts reached a fever pitch this week. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, who sits on the RNC’s platform committee, has said he will lead an effort to put together a “minority report” on the platform should the committee soften abortion language -- something he claims will happen.
The Family Research Council, in conjunction with dozens of other conservative groups, just launched a “Platform Integrity Project” which “seeks to work with the RNC and the Trump campaign for an open process that will help ensure the preservation of the GOP's solidly conservative platform that contains longstanding pro-life, pro-family, and pro-Israel planks.”
