A Quote by Robert Casey
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.
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Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world.
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their own respective parties, much less the views of those who are going to vote in the November general election.
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I won't use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue.
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.
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