"Never before has a presidential campaign or party platform had a stronger commitment to reproductive health," she said.
The Party platform, with Secretary Clinton's unwavering commitment to it, is looking like it will be a strong help in meeting this challenge.
Early on, Clinton reached out to Sanders's supporters, pointing to the Party platform, which had been modified to include commitments to some of the Vermont senator's demands, such as a fifteen-dollar minimum wage, a skeptical attitude toward trade agreements, and a new Glass-Steagall Act.
If policies grounded in "inclusive capitalism" become central to the party platform, it will mark the party's strongest commitment to the economic interests of working- and middle-class Americans since Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
That influence included special attention at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July, attended by a Taiwanese delegation, where the party platform was changed for the first time to include several commitments to Taiwan's security.
Still, the Republicans continued their strong commitment to the civil rights of emancipated slaves, their party platform stating that "the permanent pacification of the Southern section of the Union and the complete protection of all its citizens in the free enjoyment of all their rights, are duties to which the Republican party is sacredly pledged".
It's not clear how the routine commitment to an undivided Jerusalem as the Israeli capital got dropped from this year's Democratic party platform, but Obama was worried enough, not least about votes in knife-edge Florida which has a significant Jewish electorate, to intervene and get it reinstated.
A party platform is a minor matter.
Party platform and candidates for the 3 Nov. 1970 California elections.
The party platform offers no support for that proposal.
