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" We must make children and families a national priority. "
Robert Casey
National
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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. "
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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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" From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity. "
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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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" 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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Good
Man
" 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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" 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. "
Robert Casey
Life
Short
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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. "
Robert Casey
Child
Strong
View
" 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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Country
Life
Abortion
" However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. "
Robert Casey
Modern Life
Modern
Sad
" Abortion is a question of choice. "
Robert Casey
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. "
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Today
Women
Parenting
" The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning. "
Robert Casey
Beginning
Very
Life
" 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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More
Women
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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. "
Robert Casey
Party
Views
Without
" 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. "
Robert Casey
Debate
Effort
Test
" Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience. "
Robert Casey
Abortion
Easy
Rest
" By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream. "
Robert Casey
Mainstream
Party
Our
" 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. "
Robert Casey
Two
Women
Legal
" 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. "
Robert Casey
Opportunity
Today
Women
" In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion. "
Robert Casey
Abortion
Question
Generation
" Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life. "
Robert Casey
Moral
Respect
Political
" A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe. "
Robert Casey
Roe
Existence
Half
" 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. "
Robert Casey
Children
Freedom
Now
" Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society. "
Robert Casey
Free
Living
Price
" Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless. "
Robert Casey
Been
Powerless
Voice
" 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. "
Robert Casey
Believe
Commitment
Party
" Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected? "
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Who
Belongs
Protected
" Abortion is the ultimate violence. "
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Ultimate
Abortion
Violence
" To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license. "
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Need
Does
Abortion