Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, chairman of the Republican Party’s platform committee, said that the party’s platform affirms their opposition to abortion and does not address the issue of exemptions in an interview on ABC’s “This Week.”
“George, you’re just reading it wrong,” McDonnell said to host George Stephanopoulos, who said he doesn’t see an exception in the abortion plank. “That’s been there for 30 years. There are multiple human life amendments that were introduced 20, 30 years ago. Some of them had exceptions, some of them didn’t.”
McDonnell reiterated his point: “The party didn’t make any judgment on that. It’s a general proposition to say we support human life. The rest of those details are up to the states and the people respectively, George, and that’s simply not covered. It’s something up to Congress and the states.”
McDonnell’s position is in line with how the RNC has been explaining their platform after it received a lot of attention this week in the wake of the Todd Akin controversy.
