Arlen Specter on Abortion
      Excerpts from Announcement Speech, March 30, 1995

      I want to take abortion out of polities. I want to keep the
      Republican Party focused on the vital economic and foreign policy
      issues -- and leave moral issues such as abortion to the
      conscience of the individual.

      I believe abortion is an issue to be decided by women -- not by
      big government.

      I will lead the fight to strip the strident anti-choice language
      from the Republican National platform -- and replace it with
      language that respects human life -- but also respects the
      diversity of opinion within our own Party on this issue.   
      Let me say it as plainly as I can: Neither this nation -- nor
      this Party can afford a Republican candidate -- so captive to the
      demands of the intolerant right -- that we end up reelecting a
      President of the incompetent left.