Huh!
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.
I know the point you are trying to make.
If you have an unwanted pregnancy your life will be hard, at least for a time. I have seen that suffering and it isn't easy to see. And maybe you have too. But aborting a child for that reason is a great injustice. Both those on the left and right sense that, and that's why there is discomfort.
I think that discomfort is a warning sign. How is it good for any society to promote or legalize injustice, even on the basis that it makes peoples lives easier in the short term?
A lot of peoples lives were wrecked when they lost their slaves during the Civil War. I imagine some starved. Does that mean we should have continued to allow slavery, so some peoples lives would be easier?
Bless your heart but there is no difference. You are either for the unborn child whether it be yours or someone else or you are not. Not much difference in I am against slavery but everyone has a right to own one.....Morales is not something you can pick or choose. Again I ask, did your mother make the right choice and if she had made a different choice then your beautiful and wonderful children would have never been born and that my dear, would have been very, very sad for us all.......
The Carter family-on the other hand-is filled with people who are just plain idiots.
IMPO, abortion should not be allowed after the first trimester.
Then who stops it if not government??
ROFL -- my first two thoughts and you two had them in posts 1 and 2!
Good points. I agree, I do think it will remain legal, permanently, because there isn't the political will to make it completely illegal. I DO agree with your point that the vast majority wants to keep it legal for rape, incest, life of the mother and birth defects. But I think there are more people who would either not mind or not mind too much if abortion just for the desire to abort were curtailed. I think the reasons to abort I mention above apply to something like 5% of abortions.
Huh!
The Carter House sits underneath a hole in the ozone layer.
Sort of like their own private Idaho.
While I'm personally against lynching, if it works for Sheets Byrd....
The problem is....someone has to define "personal business".
If you say "business that doesn't effect some other person"....
Then we have to define "some other person".
At one point "negros" were less than persons. Jews have been "less than persons". Fetuses are less than persons.....(for now......)
similar sire, similar scion
Like Mario Cumo and Kerry...and the rest of the infanticide bunch.
Both sides of their mouths...anything to get elected. political whores.
Excuse me, but I rather think that there is NO comparison between the legalized killing of unborn babies and smoking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your argument holds no merit with me.
Slavery vs abortion??????? Please, come up with something better.
Yes, not only did my mother & I make the right choice, so did all my ancestors. But, if she had made the wrong decision then how would I know about the loss of my children?
Stumped you?
In the case of Jack, I believe Roslyn WAS just a little bit pregnant.
That is why I included the "IMPO".
The government does not have the right to interfere with personal decisions.
If they can , then why can't they intervene one minute before the baby is born?
You're not making any sense here MoM.
Why is is wrong to kill a baby that is partially delivered and near full term?
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