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Abortion is a question of choice.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
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Abortion is the ultimate violence.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
Ultimate
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Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Protected
Belongs
Commonly
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Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Legal
Abortion
Conscience
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However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Sad
Abortion
Modern Life
Feature
However
Oppose
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Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Powerless
Voiceless
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Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Society
Pay
Tolerance
Free
Pluralistic
Price
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From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Identity
Unique
Embryo
Genetic
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By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Mainstream
Rejecting
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The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
Public Life
Issue
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For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
Policy
Courts
Twenty
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In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
This Generation
Issue
Pressing
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To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
General Welfare
License
Welfare
Establish
Promote
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Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Respect
Dignity
Human Life
Moral
Political
Religious
United
Human
Traditions
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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.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Common
Common Good
Political Power
Powerlessness
Good Power Man
Power Good Man
Tried
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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.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
Dollars
Billion
Billion Dollars
Vast
Generating
Roe
Wake
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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.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
Demand
Cheap
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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?
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Acknowledge
Dignity
Human Dignity
Well Being
Assume
Whose
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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 / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
Democratic
Democratic Party
Opposing
Party
Views
Issue
Reach
Solution
Tolerant
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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.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
Development
Focus
Ignored
Advocate
Undeniable
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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.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
Access
Poverty
Unlimited
Nearly
Period
More And More
Twenty
Virtually
Women And Children
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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 / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Denied
Pro Life
Views
Convention
Discovered
Governor
Holds
National Media
Protesting
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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.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
Agree
Believe
Children
Human Life
Innocent
Percent
Unjust
Poll
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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 / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
Birth
Irresponsibility
License
New Era
Security
Begins
Brought
Toward
Women And Children
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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.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
Consensus
Debate
Demand
Discussion
Effort
Party
Advocate
Broader
Litmus
Litmus Test
National
Reach
Test
Urge
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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.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Equality
Parenting
Women
Independence
Abuse
Child Abuse
Children
Mean
Poverty
Single
Today
Child
Defended
Ensuring
Problems
Solution
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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.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
Adulthood
Decision
Privacy
Protected
Grown
Held
Indeed
Roe
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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.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
Commitment
Demand
Democratic
Democratic Party
Historic
Mainstream
Position
Powerless
Embraced
Principle
Protecting
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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 / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Millions
Protected
Unborn
Unborn Child
Fundamental
Fundamental Right
Platform
Shared
Statement
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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.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
Demand
Months
Nine
Nine Months
Policy
Pregnancy
Public Policy
United States Of America
Developed
Permissive
Regime
Throughout
Virtually
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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 / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Party
Produce
Response
Worth Living
Child
Life Work Way
Crises
Dealing
Short
Pregnancies
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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.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abuse
Denied
Millions
Neglect
Risk
Basic
Economic Opportunity
Increased
Pressures
Putting
Services
Social Pressures
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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.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
Democratic
Hurt
Influence
Large Numbers
Numbers
Voters
Fairly
Disproportionate
Liberal
Low
Outcome
Relatively
Primary
Thus
Turnout
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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.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Equality
Legal
Abortion
Demand
Destroying
Innocent
Offspring
Protected
Unborn
Womb
Advocate
Assume
Attain
Option
Falsely
Legally
Suffer
Unborn Children
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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.
Robert Casey / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Abortion
Approach
Commitment
Compassionate
Contrast
Democratic
Mainstream
Offers
Hope I Am People
American People
Commands
Presents
Sharp
Strong Support
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