American - Politician | January 9, 1932 - May 30, 2000
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
Robert Casey
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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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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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From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.
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Abortion is the ultimate violence.
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Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
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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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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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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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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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