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Robert Casey
American
Politician
Born:
Jan 9
,
1932
Died:
May 30
,
2000
Abortion
Country
Life
National
Party
Women
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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
Good
Man
Political
Political Power
Power
Sense
Tried
Powerlessness
Felt
Any
Common
Common Good
Use
Who
Ever
Awful
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
Robert Casey
Legal
Abortion
Will
Rest
Nation
Easy
Never
Conscience
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
Today
Parenting
Women
Equality
Abortion
Problems
Independence
Poverty
Single
Ensuring
Solution
Abuse
Child
Child Abuse
Means
Defended
Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless.
Robert Casey
Party
Our
Voice
Voiceless
Powerless
Always
Been
Abortion is the ultimate violence.
Robert Casey
Abortion
Ultimate
Violence
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
Democracy
Abortion
Other
Nine
Virtually
Nine Months
Months
States
Throughout
Had
Developed
Demand
Policy
Became
Permissive
America
Any
Regime
Public
Pregnancy
Full
Reason
Public Policy
United
United States
United States Of America
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
Commitment
People
Strong
Abortion
Mother
Approach
Strong Support
Support
Mainstream
Sharp
Democratic
Am
Real
Commands
Contrast
Offers
Child
American
Which
Republican
American People
Convinced
Compassionate
Presents
Position
Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?
Robert Casey
Respect
Rights
Dignity
People
Will
Responsibility
Assume
Well-Being
Human
Acknowledge
Human Dignity
Whose
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
Abortion
Debate
Party
National
Broader
Open
Demand
Come
Reach
Advocate
Test
Effort
Discussion
Move
Which
Litmus
Litmus Test
Urge
Away
Consensus
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
Life
Abortion
Innocent
Believe
Unjust
Percent
Taking
Said
Child
American
Human
Poll
Human Life
Agree
Found
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
Today
Women
Opportunity
Country
Increased
Neglect
Our
Pressures
Risk
Economic
Economic Opportunity
Support
Putting
Abuse
Denied
Families
Children
Social
Social Pressures
Growing
Basic
Services
Millions
For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.
Robert Casey
Abortion
Has-Been
Almost
Policy
Courts
Been
Years
America
Controlled
Twenty
A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.
Robert Casey
Abortion
Half
Some
Vast
Generating
Industry
Dollars
Existence
Wake
Roe
Billion
Billion Dollars
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
Abortion
Focus
Facts
Development
Undeniable
Advocate
Want
Cannot
Public
Ignored
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
Freedom
Women
Abortion
Before
Birth
License
Security
Brought
Rather
Toward
New
New Era
Era
Women And Children
Begins
Irresponsibility
Children
Now
The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.
Robert Casey
Life
Abortion
Beginning
Issue
Very
Public
Public Life
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
Me
Hurt
Abortion
Liberal
Relatively
Out
Outcome
Primary
Thus
Voters
Democratic
Fairly
Because
Exercise
Am
Influence
Where
Low
Turn
Certain
Turnout
Large
Large Numbers
Disproportionate
Disproportionately
Numbers
Position
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