Robert Patrick Casey Sr. Quotes

• 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.

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  Tags in Strong, Believe, Child

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

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  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Human, Political

• Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation’s conscience.

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  Tags in Easy, Nation, Conscience

• 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.

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  Tags in Women, Freedom, New

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

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  Tags in Public, Beginning, Issue

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

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  Tags in Voice, Party, Powerless

• 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.

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  Tags in Choose

• 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.

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  Tags in Women

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

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  Tags in Living, Free

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Wrong, Party

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

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Human, Rights

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

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  Topics in America, Justice

• 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.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Women

• 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.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Women

• We must make children and families a national priority.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in National

• Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?

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  Tags in Community, Commonly

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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