Robert Casey Quotes

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.

My strong personal view, which I believe is shared by millions of Americans, is that our party should make a strong statement in its platform that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which should be protected.

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

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

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.

To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.

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

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.

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.

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.

Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?

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.

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.