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.
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.
You are doing nothing but reiterating someone else's catch phrases. Explain your reasoning.
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"And the winner of this year's 'John Kerry Public Position Award' is..."
What a dork, is he saying, "it's okay for a woman to get an abortion, but I never would"?
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.
See post #66.
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.
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?
Jimma Cotta hadda son?
I don't think this is limited to liberals or democrats. I think most people in the general population feel this way.
Does the baby get a choice too?
I'm against rape....unless it's Bill Clinton doing the raping.
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.
"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.
Sadly, no.
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