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GOP takes a hard line on abortion for its platform
Associated Press
Issue date: 8/27/08 Section: News
"I want every Republican vote out there," Everheart said.
The platform draft also urges a constitutional ban on gay marriage, which McCain does not support.
McCain opposes gay marriage but also is against a constitutional amendment against it.
He has expressed limited support for the rights accorded couples in same-sex civil unions. Apart from opposing a constitutional amendment to ban abortion, he is against most abortion rights and says he would favor overturning the Supreme Court decision affirming those rights.
The platform would also put the party on record as accepting that economic activity contributes to global warming, which is in line with McCain's views.
But it is loaded with caveats about the uncertainty of science and the need to "resist no-growth radicalism" in taking on climate change.
It warns that empowering Washington on the matter would have painful consequences, hardly a rousing endorsement of McCain's ambitious plan for mandatory federal emission cuts in a cap and trade program.
Sharp disagreements still exist in the party on social issues, but there appeared to be little taste for complicating McCain's chances by mounting a symbolic platform fight as the document is hashed out in Minneapolis.
The platform will be adopted at the Republican National Convention next week in St. Paul, Minn., after the committee finishes with it Wednesday at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
The platform draft also urges a constitutional ban on gay marriage, which McCain does not support.
McCain opposes gay marriage but also is against a constitutional amendment against it.
He has expressed limited support for the rights accorded couples in same-sex civil unions. Apart from opposing a constitutional amendment to ban abortion, he is against most abortion rights and says he would favor overturning the Supreme Court decision affirming those rights.
The platform would also put the party on record as accepting that economic activity contributes to global warming, which is in line with McCain's views.
But it is loaded with caveats about the uncertainty of science and the need to "resist no-growth radicalism" in taking on climate change.
It warns that empowering Washington on the matter would have painful consequences, hardly a rousing endorsement of McCain's ambitious plan for mandatory federal emission cuts in a cap and trade program.
Sharp disagreements still exist in the party on social issues, but there appeared to be little taste for complicating McCain's chances by mounting a symbolic platform fight as the document is hashed out in Minneapolis.
The platform will be adopted at the Republican National Convention next week in St. Paul, Minn., after the committee finishes with it Wednesday at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
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