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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. "

" Abortion is the ultimate violence. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Abortion is a question of choice. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "