Robert Casey Quotes

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

America is not ready to ban abortions.

In 1973, the Roe v. Wade decision concluded that women have a constitutionally protected right to safe and legal abortions. That landmark decision wasn't the beginning of women having abortions; it was the end of women dying from abortions.

First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

In Texas, self abortion is no crime… A woman who carries out an abortion on herself has committed no crime. The law regards her as a victim.

[Referring to William Clinton:] the abortion President

As a person who worked in the abortion industry for eight years, I can say unequivocally that the most manipulation I have ever witnessed was inside the walls of the abortion clinic.

I think it's safe to say that the entire abortion industry is based on a lie.... I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life undoing the law that bears my name.

I believe most Americans are pro-choice and anti-abortion.

I think it's the pro-abortion people who are doing this to collect on their insurance, so they can go out and build bigger and better killing centers.

Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.

We respect the individual conscience of every American on the painful issue of abortion, but believe as a matter of law that this decision should be left to a woman, her conscience, her doctor and her God. But abortion should not only be be safe and legal, it should be rare.

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.

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

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

Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.

After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.

Abortionists should be put to death.

Democrats: The party that can't wait to fund every abortion in the world.

We acknowledge the freedom of each individual to advocate for a public policy on abortion that reflects his or her beliefs.

… the mansion of constitutionalized abortion law, constructed overnight in Roe v. Wade, must be disassembled doorjamb by doorjamb.

Militant forces promoting abortion in this country have invaded my state.

Most American want their politicians to support the right of abortion but they don’t want them to be too enthusiastic about it.

As we’re moving forward at the state level, we end up hollowing out Roe even without the Supreme Court. That’s really where our strategy is so solid.