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EXTENSIONS of REMARKS March 23, 1993 EXTENSIONS of REMARKS 6120 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 23, 1993 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS REMARKS OF GOV. ROBERT P. testing it. The success of this tactic is truly discussed in depth, in school or at home. My CASEY a public relations triumph, only possible in position was simply a part of me from the an environment which constantly very beginning. marginalizes and suppresses the pro-life mes­ When I was elected Governor in 1986, both HON. JAMFS M. TALENT sage. And despite 20 years of brainwashing, my Democratic primary opponent and gen­ OF MISSOURI the American people have not been fooled. If eral election Republican opponent were pro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the majority of Americans support abortion, choice. The general election was a photo fin­ why have three of the last four presidential ish. When my opponent and I debated on Tuesday, March 23, 1993 elections been won resoundingly by pro-life statewide television shortly before the elec­ Mr. TALENT. Mr. Speaker, on March 11, candidates? If my position is irrelevant, then tion, the inevitable question was asked: "If 1993, I was in St. Louis, MO, where the Hon­ so, I'm afraid, are the views of some 80 to 85 the Supreme court overruled Roe v. Wade, percent of the people of Pennsylvania and and the Pennsylvania Legislature passed a orable Robert P. Casey, the Democratic Gov­ the United States. law banning all abortions except to save the ernor of Pennsylvania, delivered a thoughtful As I read the polls showing our continuing life of the mother, would you sign it?" My speech to the Cont erence on Abortion and unease with abortion, nothing makes me opponent said that, while there were "too Public Policy. Governor Casey has been a more proud to call myself an American. many" abortions in our country, and we leading voice on this important issue, and I Among the "herd of independent minds" who should work to reduce that number, he think his thoughts on abortion deserve to be make up our opinion leaders, abortion may would veto the law banning abortion. My an­ heard. For this reason, I would like to submit be taken as a mark of progress. But most swer was: "Yes, I would sign such a law." a copy of his speech for the RECORD. Americans have not followed. In the abortion My campaign people thought that my an­ lobby's strange sense of the word, America swer, with no qualifiers-no ifs, no ands, and REMARKS BY Gov. ROBERT p. CASEY has never been a "progressive" nation. For no buts-had lost the election. I won by All of us are joined in our conviction that we know-and this used to be the credo of about 75,000 votes. abortion is a bad thing. And although many my party-that progress can never come by When I ran for reelection in 1990, my Re­ of us are Catholics, we are also joined in the exploiting or sacrificing any one class of peo­ publican opponent was stridently pro-choice. conviction that abortion is not simply a ple. Progress is a hollow word unless every­ The abortion issue was the motivating factor Catholic concern. It's a catholic concern one is counted in and no one written off, es­ behind her candidacy. She was banking on with the small "c"-the concern of anyone pecially the most weak and vulnerable the conventional wisdom of that period-the who rejects the idea of human life as a dis­ among us. post-Webster period-when the pro-choice posable commodity. The concern of anyone Yo.u cannot stifle this debate with a piece groups tried to convince the country that with eyes to see, a mind to reason, and a of paper. No edict, no federal mandate can women. shocked by the Webster decision, heart to feel. put to rest the grave doubts of the American would rise up and drive all pro-life can­ It is not an arrogant boast, but a demo­ people. Legal abortion will never rest easy didates from public life. And their message graphic fact, that most Americans share this on this nation's conscience. It will continue was as cruel as it was direct. The leader of . conviction. Anytime the question is put to haunt the consciences of men and women the National Organization for Women in squarely to them, "Do you oppose abortion everywhere. The plain facts of biology, the Pittsburgh said that I was sick, and would on demand?" more than two out of three profound appeals of the heart, are far too un­ probably be dead before the election. (I had Americans answer yes. Asked if they favor settling to ever fade away. had open-heart surgery in 1987.) My opponent restrictions on abortion such as we have en­ The abortion issue has intersected with my called me "a rednecked Irishman." The Na­ acted in Pennsylvania, again a majority of 70 public life from the very beginning. It start­ tional Abortion Rights Action League re­ to 80 percent say yes. Perhaps the most tell­ ed in 1966, seven years before Roe v. Wade. leased a poll purporting to show the election ing survey of all found that 78 percent of the The occasion was the Pennsylvania Demo­ a dead heat when people were informed of my people would outlaw 93 percent of all abor­ cratic gubernatorial primary. New York had position on abortion. Pro-choice groups sent tions-all but the familiar hard cases. Even just passed a very liberal abortion law, and several dozen of their supporters to the Gov­ in the last election, in which all sides sought the question was, Would I sign such a law in ernor's Residence where they chanted, "Get to shelve the issue of abortion, exit polls re­ Pennsylvania if it were to pass? My oppo­ your rosaries off my ovaries." as the tele­ vealed its central importance in the minds of nent's answer was that this was an issue vision cameras whirred. And my opponent, most voters. only women fully understood; that he would who spent two million dollars, ran a tele­ To those who favor liberal abortion poli­ appoint a women's commission to study the vision commercial purporting to depict a cies, this persistent opposition is a mystery, issue, if elected; and that he would sign such rape, to dramatize my position of refusing to a disturbing sign of something backward and a law, if enacted, in Pennsylvania. My re­ recognize an exception for rape, in which it intolerant in our society. Sometimes the sponse was simple and unequivocal: If the was difficult to distinguish me from the rap­ abortion lobby pretty much concedes that law were to pass, I would veto it. ist. Americans by and large favor restrictions on I lost that primary by a narrow margin. I I won by over one million votes, the larg­ abortion-as when Pennsylvania's abortion am fairly certain that my abortion position est winning margin in Pennsylvania guber­ laws were upheld by the Supreme Court. hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, natorial political history. I am convinced Such setbacks to their cause: leave abortion where turnout is relatively low, liberal vot­ the abortion issue was a key factor in that advocates bewildered and alarmed, convinced ers turn out in disproportionately large victory. that Americans still need to be "educated on numbers and thus exercise a disproportion­ But, in between the 1986 and 1990 cam­ the issue." ate influence on the outcome. paigns, I came face to face for the first time Other times-like right now-their tactic The point I want to make about my with a conflict between my personal and is to obscure public opinion by marginalizing decisional process in 1966 is this: I took the public position on abortion, and what I re­ the pro-life side, dismissing critics of their position against a liberal abortion law in­ garded as the duty imposed by my oath of of­ cause as a handful of fanatics resisting the stinctively. I did not consider it to be a posi­ fice to "support, obey and defend" the Con­ tide of opinion. A quarter of a million people tion dictated by my Catholic faith. As a mat­ stitution of the United States. As a lawyer, may gather to protest abortion on the Wash­ ter of fact, the Catholic Church made it clear I was trained to believe that the Constitu­ ington Mall, and if the media notice them at that it took no position in the primary. And tion means what the United States Supreme all, they're treated almost in a tone of pity, many Catholics worked openly and actively Court says it means. The consequence of like some narrow fringe estranged from mod­ for my opponent. that line of reasoning was that I could not ern realities. As I discovered, even the gov­ For me, the imperative of protecting un­ sign a law which was, on its face, in direct ernor of a major state, who holds pro-life born human life has always been a self-evi­ conflict with what the Supreme Court had views, can be denied a hearing at his party's dent proposition. I cannot recall the subject decided, even when I personally did not agree convention without the national media pro- of abortion ever being mentioned, much less with the Court's ruling. e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor.
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