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To: Colonel Kangaroo
Cain will not appoint justices who will work to overturn Roe unless it is by accident. He simply believes the government should not tell people they cannot terminate a pregnancy.

CONCORD, N.H.—Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain clarified his position on abortion Thursday, a day after saying he opposed the procedure but didn't believe the government or other people should have a role in the decision to terminate a pregnancy.

In an interview Wednesday with CNN, Cain said he believes life begins at conception. "And abortion under no circumstances," he added. But Cain also said "it's not the government's role or anybody else's role to make that decision."

"I can have an opinion on an issue without it being a directive on the nation," he said. "The government shouldn't be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to social decisions that they need to make."

Here is a link: Cain on Abortion

4 posted on 10/20/2011 4:44:32 PM PDT by beancounter13
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To: beancounter13
That's not enough from Cain. Conservatives have tended to play moderate on the abortion issue while the leftists swing for the fences and hit judicial home runs in placing judges who always seem to be available to thwart the legislative will of the people to restrict “abortion rights”.
5 posted on 10/20/2011 4:49:31 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: beancounter13

From reading that interview, I gathered the interviewer changed questions in the middle of Cain’s answer, so that his answer to the second question could be construed as an answer to the first.

(But a reporter wouldn’t do that! Would he??)


6 posted on 10/20/2011 4:51:10 PM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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