Posted on 02/20/2006 4:02:32 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
LAS VEGAS, February 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Jack Carter, 58, the eldest son of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has announced he is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate to represent Nevada. At his launch, Carter spoke with reporters revealing his schizophrenic stand on abortion - a stand similar to that of his father.
Speaking with the Associated Press' Kathleen Hennessey, Carter described his abortion views saying, ""I'm a personal freedoms person. I don't want the government to come in and tell my child or whoever it is that they can't have an abortion. I'm pro-choice as far as a woman choosing, but I'm against abortion."
Stephen F. Hayward, PhD., wrote a 2004 book on Jimmy Carter noting the former President's political exploitation of abortion. In an interview with National Review, Hayward recalled Carter's abortion stand: "The 1976 campaign was the first national election after the Roe decision, and the politics of the issue were still sorting themselves out. Remember that Gerald Ford was pro-abortion, while many Democrats, including Sargent Shriver, one of Carter's rivals, were pro-life. In the Iowa caucuses, which Carter put on the map for the first time, Carter told Catholic audiences (and a gathering of bishops) that he opposed abortion and supported legislation to restrict it, thus cutting into Shriver's support. But he told feminist groups at the same time that he supported abortion rights (indeed, he had done so as governor of Georgia)."
The AP report reveals Jack Carter is Baptist and has, together with his wife Elizabeth, four children from previous marriages.
In 2000, LifeSiteNews.com reported that President Carter left the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Carter said at the time that the SBC had adopted policies "that violate the basic premises of my Christian faith," including a denominational statement that prohibits women from being pastors and tells wives to be submissive to their husbands.
However, Morris H. Chapman, chairman of the SBC Executive Committee, noted that Carter, who was originally embraced by Baptist conservatives in 1976 when he publicly described himself as a born-again Christian, lost favour with conservative Christians after such actions as appointing Sarah Weddington - the lead attorney in the landmark 1973 abortion case, Roe v. Wade - to the White House position when he was assistant to the president.
So everybody exiting an abortion clinic is being arrested and tried for murder?
I had no idea.
I am personally against abortion but believe in the rule of law.
Ever heard of Roe ~v~ Wade?
Or I don't think people should smoke, but I don't want the government to outlaw it.
Yes they can.
One is upstairs and her brother is five foot from me on his computer. Note all of the computers on the network are in the same room so we can monitor the activities.
Please use the present tense.
What isn't consistent about don't make my decisions for me and I won't make your decisions for you?
Yes, I would have violated the natural law the God placed in my heart.
Plus, our children were hard to come by - I was not about to throw that away.
The central tenet of libertarianism is non agression yet aggressing in the worst possible manner on the most helpless and innocent is fair game. That position is a joke.
That's possible. I don't see much evidence that overall most people think that while they wouldn't get an abortion, they think it should be available on demand. I think the rise of the number of young people who understand that there is a human life being murdered is only going to continue. I'm an atheist and it's a matter of biology to me; I see more people who are to the left of me who surprise me with their view of abortion.
Nothing wrong with that.
Do you believe folks should be able to choose to partially deliver a full term baby and then kill it?
No.
That is all you have?
I think the natural law of God has been placed in all human beings as hard as they may try to deny it. It is against the natural law to want to kill another person and it is the same for you as it is for anyone else. It is irrelevant whether one has the capacity to do it or not. It is irrelevant whether it is sanctioned by those who want it or not. It is murder nonetheless and you have understood this. It is no more right and moral for anyone else to murder than it is for you to murder. Because you have understood this does not mean it is excusable for others to ignore it.
I did not say I was for or believed in abortion.
What I believe in is the right for a person to make that choice.
Do you think abortion should be able to be regualted by the states? How about proscribing abortion after a certain period of time?
I know what you mean.
No. I do not believe government on any kind should stick their nose in personal business.
How about proscribing abortion after a certain period of time?
IMPO, abortion should not be allowed after the first trimester.
True. He is mean, vindictive, and jealous.
I guess this means that Rosalyn Carter CHOSE to have this jerk.
Something I have noticed about those that have children with birth defects or a genetic disease, they are able to handle it with ease and care for that child.
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