A draft of the party platform, which was leaked to media in the final days of Joe Biden’s candidacy, shows an 80-page document – five times the length of the GOP platform adopted last month. It has zero mentions of God and zero mentions of Christians, The Family Research Council reports.
By contrast, "LGBTQI-plus" is mentioned 35 times and "climate change" is mentioned more than 70 times.
The Democratic platform devotes 2 ½ pages to abortion.
Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, has hailed the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health to return control of abortion to the states.
But making abortion law a state-level issue isn’t Trump’s call alone, and the Democrats aren’t playing ball.
“They call for reinstitution of Roe v. Wade. They want a legislative way to do that which obviously imposed abortion on all 50 states for about 50 years,” Brent Keilen, FRC Action’s vice president for strategic initiatives, said on Washington Watch Tuesday.
Abortion: Not just a states’ issue
The platform shows Democrats will continue to ignore the Supreme Court by working to make abortion a national issue. In doing so, they’re ignoring taxpayers with conscientious objections as the platform calls for the removal of the Hyde Amendment and for passing The Equality Act.
Introduced by Illinois Republican Henry Hyde in 1977, the Hyde Amendment prohibits federal funds, including Medicaid, for abortion services except in cases of incest or the endangered life of the mother.
There are variations in some states.
The Equality Act was first introduced in 2015. It would incorporate discrimination protection against the LGBTQ community that currently exists in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Those protections could apply to public facilities, education, employment, housing, credit and any federally funded program.
If it passes, Christian business people will no longer be able to refuse service to LGBTQ individuals because of religious objection.
“It would be extremely detrimental to religious freedom. We’ve seen parental rights become a really big issue over the years. The platform does talk about parents but never in the context of parental rights,” Keilen told show host Jody Hice.
The platform mentioned abortion 13 times and its code phrase “reproductive rights” 14 times. There’s no respect for the authority of states to regulate abortion.
“A lot of people we’re seeing are promoting this as a states’ rights issue. The Democrat Party platform does not list this as their position. It does not want states to even have the ability to protect life in any form or fashion. It actually goes after states that have instituted any pro-life laws since the Dobbs decision. It’s pretty explicit what they would like to see here,” Keilen said.
In their quest for abortion, with no restrictions, Democrats are ignoring the racist history of Planned Parenthood, which receives 40% of its funding from the federal government.
Planned Parenthood remains the U.S. leader in abortions performed. In its most current data, the group performed 228 abortions for every adoption referral, according to the Lozier Institute.
Running away from Sanger
Planned Parenthood has sought to distance itself from its past, especially from founder Margaret Sanger. Her work in eugenics, which focuses on desirable characteristics for a population through selective breeding, have complicated the group’s policy of so-called inclusion.
Planned Parenthood’s president and CEO, Alexis McGill Johnson, threw up her hands on the subject in a 2021 op-ed for The New York Times.
“Up until now, Planned Parenthood has failed to own the impact of our founder’s actions. We have defended Sanger as a protector of bodily autonomy and self-determination, while excusing her association with white supremacist groups and eugenics as an unfortunate ‘product of her time,’” McGill Johnson wrote. “Margaret Sanger harmed generations with her beliefs. In our second century, Planned Parenthood has a chance to heal those harms.”
Black babies biggest target
“They can try to run but they can’t change their DNA,” Ryan Bomberger, chief creative officer of the Radiance Foundation, told Hice.
Abortion at its core is racist, and Planned Parenthood does far more damage now than it did under Sanger because of the number of black babies it has killed, said Bomberger.
Founded in Georgia, data from the Radiance Foundation shows that blacks comprise 67% of all abortions in the state.
In Georgia, the abortion rate of among blacks is 5 ½ times higher than among whites.
“Abortion is devastating and wrong and tragic, and yet you have these Ford Foundation- and Planned Parenthood-funded organizations that are led by people with my complexion saying, ‘Wait, we need more abortions in the black community,’” said Bomberger, who is black.
Democrats seem determined to run a presidential campaign on the abortion issue.
The history of Planned Parenthood should be a big part of the Republican response.
“People not realizing the racist roots and the unchanged DNA of Planned Parenthood don’t realize that Planned Parenthood brags about it. They brag about how black people are their base. That came from one of their emails. Of course, black people are their base because we’re their main customers,” Bomberger said.
'That's the same party'
Black voters need to realize that neither Planned Parenthood nor the Democratic Party have changed, Bomberger said.
“You’ve got the Democratic Party, which is the party of slavery … the party that went to war for slavery, the party of Jim Crow, the party of poll taxes and literacy tests, all the Jim Crow policies," he said. "That’s the same party that is now of what Fannie Lou Hamer, the famous activist, called abortion genocide in the black community. It’s the same party today that is pushing unlimited abortion in the black community.”
