Cain was asked whether his daughter or granddaughter should keep a child conceived through rape. The comments he made are in reference to that specific question.
Cain said directly that he doesn’t believe in abortion for any reason so Morgan framed the question as whether Cain’s daughter or granddaughter would KEEP the baby. That means the question Cain was asked was whether his family would choose adoption for the child, and ON THAT ISSUE he said it is the family’s choice. He said it would also be the family’s choice WHEN THE MOTHER’S LIFE IS ENDANGERED.
People are taking his response to those issues (The families should decide what to do in those complex cases of adoption v keeping the baby and whether or not to save the woman’s life or risk both mother and baby dying) - both of which are PRO-LIFE POSITIONS - and applying them as if they are pro-abortion issues.
We have to be really, really careful because there are people who are deliberately trying to misrepresent Cain. I think that may be what Cain is referring to when he says people are getting on his last nerve. Maybe not so much the candidates themselves, but the people representing opposing candidates are libeling Cain.
It makes my physically sick. Disgusting. If this is what we do, we’re as bad as the democrat liars.
You are absolutely correct, this was written as a hit piece to try and make it sound like Cain is pro choice, when he is not. Cain was talking about raising the child and not abortion when it comes to choice.
"If one of your female children, grandchildren was raped, you would honestly want her to bring up that baby as her own?" Morgan asked.
Cain said that Morgan was "mixing" questions, but then replied:
"No, it comes down to it's not the government's role or anybody else's role to make that decision. Secondly, if you look at the statistical incidents, you're not talking about that big a number. So what I'm saying is it ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make. Not me as president, not some politician, not a bureaucrat. It gets down to that family. And whatever they decide, they decide. I shouldn't have to tell them what decision to make for such a sensitive issue."
I don't know how he could make it any clearer then this. People around here who are emotionally tied to other candidates in the campaign need to keep in mind the 9th Commandment is not a suggestion.
Bearing false witness is still a sin.