Robert Patrick Casey Sr. Quotes

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Single

• Abortion is a question of choice.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Choice, Abortion

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Existence, Industry

• 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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  Tags in Believe, Human

• Abortion is the ultimate violence.

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  Tags in Violence, Abortion

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

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Judgement

• 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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  Topics in America, Democracy

• Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Focus, Public

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

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  Topics in America

  Tags in Policy

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Back, Party

• 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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  Topics in Power

  Tags in 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in State, Party

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

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  Topics in Sad

  Tags in Modern

• 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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  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Hope

• 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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  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Hurt

• From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Unique

• 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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  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Come

• In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generation, Issue

• 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.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Open

• 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 Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Crisis

Robert Patrick Casey Sr. (36)

Birth:	9th January, 1932
Death:	30th May, 2000
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Lawyer

About

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 senator and Auditor General of Pennsylvania.

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