Robert Casey Quotes

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Robert Casey

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 9, 1932

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

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

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

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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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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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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.

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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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Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?

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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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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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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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Abortion is the ultimate violence.

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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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We must make children and families a national priority.

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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.

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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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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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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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