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" The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning. "

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" To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Abortion is the ultimate violence. "

" Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless. "

" By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream. "

" Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored. "

" 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 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. "

" In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion. "

" We must make children and families a national priority. "

" 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. "

" A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe. "

" 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. "

" Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap. "

" Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life. "

" Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience. "

" Abortion is a question of choice. "

" 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. "

" Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected? "

" 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. "

" Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society. "

" For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts. "