Robert Casey

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?”

“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.”

“Abortion is the ultimate violence.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.”

“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.”