The Republican Party has tweaked language on reproductive freedom in its 2024 party platform, The Washington Post reported, including text that would allow states to grant constitutional rights to a fetus but stopping short of calling for a politically unpopular abortion ban at the national level.
The text would allow states the power to pass laws extending the 14th amendment to embryos and fetuses. The amendment prohibits depriving “any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." For decades anti-abortion activists have argued the 14th amendment as protects human life from conception.
