Robert Casey
Robert Casey
Robert Patrick "Bob" Casey, Sr.was an American politician from Pennsylvania. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 42nd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1995. He previously served as a state senatorand Auditor General of Pennsylvania...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 January 1932
CountryUnited States of America
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To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.
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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.
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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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In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.
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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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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.
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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.
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From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.
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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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Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
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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 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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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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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.