Robert Casey Quotes

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

Respect, Life, Political

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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Life, Human, Said

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

Life, Country, Become

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

Wrong, Party, Democratic

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

Women, Today, Children

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

Society, Living, Free

Abortion is the ultimate violence.
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Violence, Ultimate, Abortion

Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless.
Robert Casey

Voice, Party, Powerless

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

Women, Freedom, Children

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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Half, Existence, Industry

Abortion is a question of choice.
Robert Casey

Choice, Question, Abortion

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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Women, Equality, Parenting

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.
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Democracy, America, Reason

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

Focus, Cannot, Public

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

Good, Power, Political

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

State, Party, Media

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

Move, Party, Mainstream

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

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.
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Human, Beginning, Unique

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

Life, Sad, Might

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

Hope, Mother, Strong

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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Hurt, Influence, Liberal

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

Away, Effort, Move

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

Country, Open, Party

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

Life, Work, Mother

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: January 9, 1932

Died: May 30, 2000

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