Carter For Party Chair!

"I never have felt that any abortion should be committed -- I think each abortion is the result of a series of errors."

Jimmy Carter is my kind of Democrat. We ought to identify the errors that lead up to what often becomes a final and dramatic error--abortion--and try and correct them.

The Democratic Party has doggedly and dogmatically supported abortion in all its forms for far too long.
Abortion should be safe, legal under certain circumstances, and rare.

While some in the Democratic Party have recently begun espousing that point of view, too many are so reflexive and inflexible in their rhetoric that they sound like they are defending abortion itself and not just the "right to choose."

Abortion, particularly the later term forms, are abhorrent. You need not seek out shocking photographs or read inflammatory literature to see what I mean--just check out the 2000 Supreme Court case of Stenberg v. Carhart, where the most well known and utilized forms of late term abortion are described in horrifying detail. Scroll down to the actual opinion, and then check out section I. Troubling.

As the opinion points out, only about 10% of abortions are performed in the second trimester, which because of the development and size of fetus necessitates the use of one of these disgusting methods. Democrats should have no compunction about standing up and saying that the practice described in that opinion is horrible.

Abortion should be safe, and it order to be safe, it needs to be legal. That is my stance as a Democrat.
But not every form has to be legal, there ought to be reasonable limitations on the exercise of the right, and, most importantly, I can abhor the practice while understanding the need for it to be a decision left up to a woman and her loved ones.