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" A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust. "
Believe
Life
Child
" Abortion is a question of choice. "
Abortion
Choice
Question
" Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty. "
Today
Women
Parenting
" Abortion is the ultimate violence. "
Ultimate
Abortion
Violence
" Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap. "
Country
Life
Abortion
" Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime. "
Reason
Democracy
America
" Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored. "
Focus
Abortion
Development
" Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. "
Political
Good
Man
" As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it. "
Party
Views
Without
" A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe. "
Roe
Existence
Half
" By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream. "
Mainstream
Party
Our
" For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts. "
America
Almost
Abortion
" From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity. "
Unique
Identity
Human
" However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. "
Modern Life
Modern
Sad
" I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child. "
Mother
Child
Commitment
" I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome. "
Me
Abortion
Hurt
" I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus. "
Debate
Effort
Test
" If our country is to reach a workable solution to the abortion issue, the Democratic party must be open to and tolerant of opposing views. "
Abortion
Solution
Reach
" Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution. "
Choose
Decision
Constitution
" In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis. "
Life
Short
Work
" In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion. "
Abortion
Question
Generation
" Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience. "
Abortion
Easy
Rest
" My strong personal view, which I believe is shared by millions of Americans, is that our party should make a strong statement in its platform that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which should be protected. "
Child
Strong
View
" Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life. "
Moral
Respect
Political
" Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless. "
Been
Powerless
Voice
" The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning. "
Beginning
Very
Life
" The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth. "
Children
Freedom
Now
" The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb. "
Two
Women
Legal
" The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless. "
Believe
Commitment
Party
" Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity. "
Opportunity
Today
Women
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