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Jimmy Carter's Son: "I'm pro-choice as far as a woman choosing, but I'm against abortion"
LifeSiteNews ^ | 21 February 2006 | John-Henry Westen

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: 2006; abortion; allovertheshop; babykiller; babykillers; babykilling; braindeadjack; dopeydem; jackcarter; jimmah; jimmahjnr; nevada; roevwade; senate; wewontgetfooledagain
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To: Aussie Dasher

Jimmy Carter's Son: "I'm pro-choice as far as a woman choosing, but I'm against abortion"

Just like his father. Trying to straddle the fence. Probably loss his gonads doing it too.


61 posted on 02/20/2006 4:50:35 PM PST by chainsaw ( ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - H. Clinton))
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To: TheMom
I do not believe in abortion, but I firmly believe in the right to have a choice.

You are doing nothing but reiterating someone else's catch phrases. Explain your reasoning.

62 posted on 02/20/2006 4:51:26 PM PST by johniegrad
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To: johniegrad

bump


63 posted on 02/20/2006 4:55:33 PM PST by Ca.Native.Southern.Soul (Longing for the Bible Belt)
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To: Aussie Dasher

"And the winner of this year's 'John Kerry Public Position Award' is..."


64 posted on 02/20/2006 4:57:59 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Aussie Dasher

What a dork, is he saying, "it's okay for a woman to get an abortion, but I never would"?


65 posted on 02/20/2006 5:00:56 PM PST by infidel29 ("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." --Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Jorge
You must be personally for ANYTHING before you can believe in ANYBODY else has the right to choose it.

I respectfully disagree.

Abortion is something I do not believe in, something I have never considered, nor would ever consider. I don't believe in it as a form of birth control.

I do believe that a woman, and a man, should have the right to make the choice of whether or not to bring a baby into this world.

66 posted on 02/20/2006 5:02:55 PM PST by TheMom (Dix now has a fellow Texan to talk politics with. R.I.P. TexasCowboy.)
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To: johniegrad

See post #66.


67 posted on 02/20/2006 5:03:26 PM PST by TheMom (Dix now has a fellow Texan to talk politics with. R.I.P. TexasCowboy.)
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To: Aussie Dasher
OMG, he had a son? Oy...
68 posted on 02/20/2006 5:05:50 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (i'd rather hunt with Cheney than drive with Kennedy)
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To: Aussie Dasher

When I read this the first thing that popped into my mind is when John Kerry said "I actually voted for the 87 billion (to fund the war) before I voted against it". The quote that kept on giving.


69 posted on 02/20/2006 5:06:38 PM PST by My GOP
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To: TheMom

66 answers nothing. Why do you not believe in abortion as a form or birth control and why do you not believe in abortion as acceptable to you and your husband?


70 posted on 02/20/2006 5:08:06 PM PST by johniegrad
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To: Paperdoll
Deliverance
71 posted on 02/20/2006 5:09:09 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: Aussie Dasher

Jimma Cotta hadda son?


72 posted on 02/20/2006 5:11:33 PM PST by Paperdoll (On the cutting edge)
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To: Darkwolf377

I don't think this is limited to liberals or democrats. I think most people in the general population feel this way.


73 posted on 02/20/2006 5:11:44 PM PST by Mr. Blonde (You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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To: TheMom
I do not believe in abortion, but I firmly believe in the right to have a choice.

Does the baby get a choice too?

74 posted on 02/20/2006 5:12:47 PM PST by Diplomat
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To: Aussie Dasher

I'm against rape....unless it's Bill Clinton doing the raping.


75 posted on 02/20/2006 5:15:27 PM PST by Osage Orange (Symbolism before Substance........the DemoSocialistMarxistLeftistLyingLibs New Testament)
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To: Aussie Dasher

76 posted on 02/20/2006 5:16:44 PM PST by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: johniegrad

It is not a good form of birth control, because it is the "easy" way out. Birth control should be the pill, condoms or abstaining. Heck, they even have products now that will tell you when you are ovulating.

Abortion is not acceptable for us because we don't believe in it.

My personal feeling is God gave us two great gifts we were not about to give back.


77 posted on 02/20/2006 5:19:45 PM PST by TheMom (Dix now has a fellow Texan to talk politics with. R.I.P. TexasCowboy.)
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To: Mr. Blonde
I don't think this is limited to liberals or democrats. I think most people in the general population feel this way. On what do you base this opinion?
78 posted on 02/20/2006 5:20:16 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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To: Aussie Dasher

"Jimmy Carter's Son: "I'm pro-choice as far as a woman choosing, but I'm against abortion" "

- In other words, he's a pussy.


79 posted on 02/20/2006 5:20:29 PM PST by Frenetic
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To: Diplomat
Does the baby get a choice too?

Sadly, no.

80 posted on 02/20/2006 5:21:23 PM PST by TheMom (Dix now has a fellow Texan to talk politics with. R.I.P. TexasCowboy.)
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