The Republican Party of Texas convention ended Saturday with delegates voting on a party platform that includes additional restrictions on abortion and...
Voting on 50 pages of platform proposals closed the state GOP convention, with final results expected by midweek.
Other platform planks called for refusing to issue birth certificates for children born to undocumented parents in Texas, banning transgender teachers in public schools and abolishing property taxes.Convention delegates are often drawn from the ranks of party activists who tend to be strongly conservative, and the platform reflected that on major political battlegrounds involving education, immigration and health care.
The platform contains almost 250 planks, or policy goals. Delegates debated the contents of the 50-page document late into Friday after a protracted election for party leadership delayed business. The Texas Medical Board is in the process of codifying the medical exception to Texas’ near-total ban on abortion. TheThe platform also seeks to expand curriculum requirements to teach students that life begins at fertilization, witness a live ultrasound and view, for high schoolers, anti-abortion videos.
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