Great news, John!
Your support helped achieve BIG victories in the Texas GOP platform!
Not only did we defeat attempts to abandon Pro-Life principles, but for the first time ever, stopping illegal abortion websites and improving adoption were placed in the top 15 GOP legislative priorities!
Our Legislative Team and I collectively spent 259 hours at the Republican Party of Texas Convention, ensuring Pro-Life issues make it into the state GOP’s official platform and legislative priorities.
We attended meetings, testified before committees, and worked closely with Republican leaders to defend Pro-Life principles, amend the party platform, and set Life as a priority.
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I told you about the “Right to Win” group that was trying to get Republicans to erase all references of abortion or the sanctity of Life from our platform and legislative priorities to win elections.
>> The group’s leaders argued that we should write our platform based on polling data and not our core principles.
They actually said, “Our government is set up to be ruled by the will of the people, and if we don’t go with the will of the people we won’t stay in power.”
>> Our team rebutted their rhetoric and urged the committee members to stand on our life-saving victories. One Republican leader even asked them, “How many babies are you willing to let die to win an election?”
By God’s grace, Republicans rejected the “Right to Win” message.
Praise the Lord. Through the week of countless debates, speeches, and conversations, I realized that our biggest threat is not abhorrent pro-abortion groups like “Right to Win,” but apathy.
We can win a vote on whether we erase our Pro-Life values from the platform. However, I am not as confident that ordinary voters will rise to stop new threats to preborn children.
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Yes, committee members heeded our call to list Pro-Life issues in the top 15 legislative priorities, but the 10,000+ citizen delegates will have the final say on whether saving babies from abortion pills and helping with adoption are in the official top eight list.
We are still waiting for the results to see if the delegates voted to make Pro-Life issues a top priority for the Republican Party of Texas over the next two years.
John, thank you for your prayers, encouragement, and support. Most of all, thank you for remaining ardently Pro-Life!
Summary of some victories already secured from the convention:
- Adopted new language in the platform committing to stop abortion pill websites, add more protections for vulnerable patients, and defend our laws on medical emergencies;
- Elected Republican Party leaders who embrace, not abandon, Pro-Life values; and
- Nominated "stopping abortion pill websites" and "promoting adoption" as legislative priorities for delegates to vote on.
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The reality is, at the end of the day, I do not care what the official Republican documents say. I care what God says, and He has been abundantly clear that all people, whether in the womb, a hospital bed, or their mother’s arms, are created in His image and we have a responsibility to value and protect them.
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