From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Newsgroups: soc.women,alt.politics.elections,alt.society.civil-liberty,talk.abortion
Subject: [Republicans] On Women, Rights, and Abortion
Date: 7 Oct 92 05:15:28 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL

[Michael Lax has posted the Republican Platform to alt.politics.elections.
Here are some excerpts related to women, women's rights, and abortion - Carl]

[...]

 Over the last several decades, liberal
Democrats have increasingly shifted economic burdens onto the
American family.  Indeed, the liberal Democrat tax-and-spend
policies have forced millions of women into the workplace just to
make ends meet.
[...]
We support programs to help mothers and their
babies get a good start in life; and we call for strong action,
at all levels of government, to enforce parental responsibility
with regard to alcohol, drugs, and neglect.
[...]
We also call
for expanded research on various diseases, common to both men and
women, but whose effects on women have yet to be determined.  We
call for fetal protection in the workplace and in scientific
research.
[...]
We endorse Republican legislation, the Pornography Victims
Compensation Act, allowing the victims of pornography to seek
damages from those who make or sell it, especially since the
Commission on Pornography, in 1986, found a direct link between
pornography and violent crimes committed against women and
children.
[...]
     We renew the historic Republic commitment to the rights of
women, from the early days of the suffragist movement to the
present.  Because legal rights mean little without opportunity,
we assert economic growth as the key to the continued progress of
women in all fields of American life.
[...]
We applaud the
advancement of women in the military and single out for special
recognition the outstanding contribution of women in Operations
Desert Shield/Desert Storm.  However, we oppose liberal Democrat
attempts to place women in combat positions just to make an
ideological point.
[...]

     Asserting equal rights for all, we support the Bush
Administration's vigorous enforcement of statutes to prevent illegal
discrimination on account of sex, race, creed, or national origin.
Promoting opportunity, we reject efforts to replace equal rights with
quotas or other preferential treatment.
[...]

     Accordingly, we oppose programs in public schools that
provide birth control or abortion services or referrals. 
Instead, we encourage abstinence education programs with proven
track records in protecting youth from disease, pregnancy, and
drug use.

[...]

     We believe the unborn child has a fundamental individual
right to life which cannot be infringed.  We therefore reaffirm
our support for a human life amendment to the Constitution, and
we endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth
Amendment's protections apply to unborn children.  We oppose
using public revenues for abortion and will not fund
organizations which advocate it.  We commend those who provide
alternatives to abortion by meeting the needs of mothers and
offering adoption services.  We reaffirm our support for
appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and
the sanctity of innocent human life.
[...]

     Because we uphold the family as the building block of
economic progress, we protect its rights in international
programs and will continue to withhold funds from organizations
involved in abortion.
[...]
--
Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Newsgroups: soc.women,soc.men