Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?
– Robert Casey
Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
– Robert Casey
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.
– Robert Casey
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
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
– Robert Casey
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
– Robert Casey
However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.
– Robert Casey
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.