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Jimmy Carter Scolds Democrats on Abortion Stance

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This article originally appeared in Catholic World News

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has scolded leaders of his own Democratic Party for their support of unrestricted abortion.

"I have always thought it was not in the mainstream of the American public to be extremely liberal on many issues," Carter told reporters in Washington on November 3, as reported in the Washington Times. The former President continued: "I think our party's leaders - some of them - are overemphasizing the abortion issue."

In a breakfast meeting with reporters, the former President, an Evangelical Christian, said that he agreed with President George W. Bush on some issues, including this one. "I've never been convinced, if you let me inject my Christianity into it, that Jesus Christ would approve abortion," he said.

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  During his own presidential campaign in 1976, Carter had said that he personally opposed abortion, but would not encourage efforts to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision.

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