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.
Why not? You believe others should have the right to it. Why not you?
On first reading, I thought the quote was:
I'm pro-choice as far as choosing a woman..."
I thought it was about BJ Klintoon.
Geez, that guy looks like a cross between Jimmah Carter and Jerry Springer, with a little Dick Gephardt thrown in to boot!
This sh&t flew under the radar then but it won't fly now. If the GOP can bring itself to field one halfway decent candidate, the Carter-spawn is dead as dried spit.
What kind of satanic logic is that?
I agree completely, but I think I'll go on to another post. Good luck trying to explain/justify the concept of "personal freedom" on this issue.
On a basic level - I also believe people have the right to have body piercings, tattoos and a shaved head. That is something I would never do.
Thanks!
LOL
Are you implying that one has the right to prevent others from performing a legal activity just because one doesn't like or believe in it?
If you are against hunting do you think that it should be banned simply for that reason?
What other legal activities do you oppose and therefore should be stopped?
Thanks for hanging in there with me. I don't mean to be overtly provocative but you have the capacity to understand the illogic of the position you have posited here and to be able to make good of it. Correct me if I am wrong but it sounds like you and your husband have been blessed with two wonderful children. If you had aborted those children, you would have been violating the natural law placed by God in your heart. Do you believe this?
Do you believe folks should be able to choose to partially deliver a full term baby and then kill it?
People I know. I don't know anyone who thinks abortion should be outright outlawed completely. And no one wants someone making decisions for them. They may never choose abortion in their own life, but wouldn't go in and tell someone else that they shouldn't do it. Maybe I just know a lot of libertarians.
Is it safe to say your Mom made the right choice? Can your children say the same? I wonder what choice the unborn child would make if given the opportunity.......
Since when is a murder a legal activity?
The choice should be made before conception. BUT . . . that does not always happen and some folks use it after conception.
Does that mean that a Jew must "be personally for Jesus" before they can believe that "anybody can be a Christian?"
The wrong kind. Try hanging with the pro life libertarians, at least there is a consistency to their philosophy.
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