OK, let’s step back and analyze this situation. Up until just a couple of years ago when the Supreme Court overturned abortion rights, Roe v Wade had been the law for decades. As president, Carter signed the Hyde Amendment in 1977 in an effort to restrict abortion and ban federal funding for it, an amendment named after a Republican who wrote the bill. Regardless of whether our presidents have been Republican or Democrat, until the Supreme Court was restocked, every president hasn’t been able to do anything more than Carter did. Oh, and Carter didn’t have the opportunity to elect a Supreme Court justice.
Carter hasn’t been the leader of the Democratic Party since January 1981. He’s been nothing more than an ex-president, and as such, the most he could do is what he did in that video, which is to say he wasn’t on board with abortion, and couldn’t ever religiously reconcile with it.
Up until some of Trump’s SC justice picks, where does this leave the court appointees that other presidents (including Republicans) picked? It’s true that Carter could have been more vocal about the issue as a former president, but then you’d have to hold these other presidents to the same standard. And by the way, some of you on this very forum are on record as saying you voted for Clinton and even Obama, so where does this leave you? Certainly in Obama’s time, the Democrats were fully entrenched in the pro-choice camp.