{"id":15828,"date":"2016-04-21T16:50:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T20:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/?p=15828"},"modified":"2016-04-21T16:50:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T20:50:52","slug":"lila-rose-on-donald-trump-wanting-to-change-the-gop-platform-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lila-rose-on-donald-trump-wanting-to-change-the-gop-platform-on-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lila Rose on Donald Trump wanting to change the GOP platform on abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p dir=\"ltr\">ARLINGTON, VA (<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1115902536\"><span class=\"aQJ\">April 21, 2016<\/span><\/span>) \u2013 Statement from Lila Rose, president and founder of the pro-life organization <a href=\"https:\/\/liveaction.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Live Action<\/a>, on Donald Trump wanting to change the GOP platform to include abortion exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cRape and incest are horrific injustices, and those who commit these acts should always be punished to the full extent of the law. U.S. law forbids the use of the death penalty as a punishment for rapists, yet current law permits killing the innocent preborn children conceived in rape.\u00a0 Abortion should not be held up as a pathway to healing from rape or incest, as it doesn\u2019t undo the crime; it just adds more violence to what the survivor has already endured.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIf you are pro-life, you can\u2019t say certain lives are less worthy or don&#8217;t deserve protection because of how they are conceived.\u00a0 To say children conceived in rape are somehow less human and shouldn\u2019t be allowed to live is a grave injustice.\u00a0 Survivors of rape and incest and their children must be shown compassion and be supported by their communities. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/liveactionnews.org\/my-son-was-conceived-in-rape-but-he-was-not-a-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\">While some mothers choose to keep their children<\/a>, adoption is the option for those who don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cOver 1000 medical professionals from around the world<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dublindeclaration.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> have publicly declared<\/a> that abortion is never medically necessary to save a mother\u2019s life.\u00a0 While life-saving medical treatment may result in the death of the child in a mother&#8217;s womb, there is a fundamental difference between providing that legitimate treatment and elective abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, VA (April 21, 2016) \u2013 Statement from Lila Rose, president and founder of the pro-life organization Live Action, on Donald Trump wanting to change the GOP platform to include abortion exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother: \u201cRape and incest are horrific injustices, and those who commit these acts should always be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[9553],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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