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" 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. "
Robert Casey
Abortion
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion. "
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" Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience. "
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" 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. "
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" Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility? "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected? "
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" Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life. "
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" For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts. "
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" We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty. "
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" Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap. "
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" Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless. "
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" From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity. "
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" 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. "
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" A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe. "
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" Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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