Our Endangered Values, by Jimmy Carter: on Families & Children


Bill Frist: Diagnosis of Terry Schiavo disproven by autopsy

Some of the more conservative officials in Washington demonstrated their frustration with the independence of the judiciary by injecting themselves at the last moment into the highly controversial Terri Schiavo case after nearly 20 judges, most of them conservative jurists appointed by Republicans, had maintained their 15-year refusal to extend her life artificially.

Making it clear that he was speaking as a heart surgeon, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist pronounced to his colleagues that he condemned the judicial consensus, "based on a review of the video footage which I spent an hour or so looking at last night in my office here in the Capital. And that footage, to me, depicted something very different than persistent vegetative state." This diagnosis contradicted the subsequent medical examiner's autopsy performed on Mrs. Schiavo, which reported that she was blind and her brain was "grossly abnormal," less than half its normal size.

Source: Our Endangered Values, by Jimmy Carter, p. 94-95 Sep 26, 2006

Jimmy Carter: Sex ed should mention contraception

One of the well-meaning but counterproductive approaches is to refrain from teaching our young people how to avoid pregnancy, instruction that is provided thoroughly and persistently in other nations. There is now skyrocketing federal funding for sex education, but unfortunately most often with a strict prohibition against mention of any kind of contraception, despite the fact that 60% of our American teenagers report having sex before they are 18 years old. A "New York Times" article reveals that Canadian and European young people are about equally active sexually but, deprived of proper sex education, American girls are 5 times as likely to have a baby as French girls, and 7 times as likely to have an abortion.
Source: Our Endangered Values, by Jimmy Carter, p. 74-75 Sep 26, 2006

  • The above quotations are from Our Endangered Values:
    America's Moral Crisis    ,
    by Jimmy Carter    .
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