"In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis"
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The subtext is intra-party combat. Casey, a Democrat and prominent anti-abortion figure, is staking out a pro-life identity that can live inside a liberal economic agenda. By saying “our response as a party,” he’s arguing that the party’s brand should be competence and compassion, not moral policing. He also smuggles in a rebuke of the punitive turn in abortion debates: the problem isn’t only the procedure, it’s the temptation to treat the fetus as expendable when society fails the pregnant person.
“Victimize the child” is the hard edge, designed to moralize without sounding theocratic. It casts abortion as violence while keeping the proposed remedy secular and policy-heavy. Contextually, this reads like a late-20th-century attempt to hold together a coalition fraying under culture-war pressure: keep the moral language, but tether it to a welfare-state promise. The persuasive move is simple: if you won’t fix the crisis, don’t claim righteousness about its outcomes.
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Casey, Robert. (2026, January 15). In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-short-our-response-as-a-party-should-be-to-155919/
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Casey, Robert. "In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-short-our-response-as-a-party-should-be-to-155919/.
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"In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-short-our-response-as-a-party-should-be-to-155919/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
