Jimmy Carter now criticizing Democrats too

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Jimmy Carter is criticizing his party for pro-abortion extremism, the Washington Times reports:

"I never have felt that any abortion should be committed--I think each abortion is the result of a series of errors," he told reporters over breakfast at the Ritz-CarltonHotel, while across town Senate Democrats deliberated whether to filibuster the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. because he may share President Bush and Mr. Carter's abhorrence of abortion.

"These things impact other issues on which [Mr. Bush] and I basically agree," the Georgia Democrat said. "I've never been convinced, if you let me inject my Christianity into it, that Jesus Christ would approve abortion."_._._.

Democrats must "let the deeply religious people and the moderates on social issues like abortion feel that the Democratic party cares about them and understands them," he said, adding that many Democrats, like him, "have some concern about, say, late-term abortions, where you kill a baby as it's emerging from its mother's womb."

Carter added: "Believe me, you don't want the Democrats out there reminding the American people that it's a constitutional right to abort a baby five minutes before birth."