The Republicans in New York actually have a pro-choice plank in their platform".
More highlights: The pro-choice plank: We strongly support a woman's right to choose to devote her life to her family and children.
After the Philadelphia convention, Willkie felt he had no choice but to endorse a plank denouncing President Roosevelt for seeking to drag the nation into war -- even though he generally agreed with the president.
"I do believe that, ultimately, reason will prevail and the Republican Party will finally eliminate that anti-choice, anti-woman, and antediluvian plank from our party platform, and we will once again represent the values of personal freedom and choice," declared Roselyn O'Connell, a Republican and president of the National Women's Political Caucus.
Let's go once step further and use language that people in the organization will understand, a hierarchy of choices to guide investment by plank.
Commerce Secretary William M. Daley, who is leading the administration's lobbying effort, said lawmakers must make a straight choice or, as he put it, "walk the plank".
At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Governor Casey asked to present a minority report opposing the party's plank on abortion that declared "reproductive choice" a "fundamental right" deserving government financing.
The Massachusetts senator said the GOP is supposed to be "a big-tent party" and they need to convey in their party's defining plank that "you can be pro-choice and still be a good Republican".
The Tories, like Labour, are keen on the principle of parental choice, and the Right to Choose is a central plank of their education policies.
The 1996 platform carried such a plank, and efforts by the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition and other groups to have it thrown out were soundly rebuffed.
Make it in these easy steps: Get a plank of wood in the size of your choice.
