Sen. Rick Scott’s policy plan to help Republicans win back Congress in 2022 has received a lot of flak, some of which is rightly deserved. But there’s one position included in the agenda that should be non-negotiable for all GOP candidates: “Men are men, women are women, and unborn babies are babies.”
“We believe in science,” Scott’s agenda says. “Men and women are biologically different, ‘male and female He created them.’ Modern technology has confirmed that abortion takes a human life. Facts are facts, the earth is round, the sun is hot, there are two genders, and abortion stops a beating heart. To say otherwise is to deny science.”
This position is vital if Republicans are to combat the Left’s radical gender ideology and abortion fanaticism successfully.
There is no room for “gender identity” in civil rights laws that ban sex-based discrimination — such provisions must be done away with immediately if women’s spaces, including bathrooms and sports teams, are to remain women’s spaces.
And if Republicans believe, as they say they do, that an abortion is the taking of an innocent human life, then they must make every effort to protect that life. This begins with the recission of all federal funding of organizations that sponsor and perform abortions, such as Planned Parenthood. Introduce laws to hold delinquent fathers financially responsible for their children and create financial incentives, such as increased child tax credits, so that mothers aren’t left to bear the burden of child-rearing alone. Most importantly, Republicans must pass legislation recognizing that the 14th Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children.
Few of these policy positions are new to Republicans. But few of these policies have ever taken shape, even when Republicans have controlled the federal government.
That needs to change. All GOP candidates should be expected to go on record and confirm that they oppose the inclusion of “gender identity” in federal law and support an interpretation of the 14th Amendment that prohibits abortion and protects unborn life. Anything less, as Scott put it, is a denial of science and common sense.
