"No, it comes down to is, 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 try to tell them what decision to make for such a sensitive decision.
No, they don’t. I can have an opinion on an issue without it being a directive on the nation. The government shouldn’t be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to a social decision that they need to make.
Sounds like Cain's position is similar to the position of many liberal Democrats and others who say --- I personally oppose abortion, but I have no right to tell a woman she can't have an abortion. That is THE pro-abortion position.
Convince me otherwise.
Read the transcript I posted above, if that doesn’t disabuse you of your erroneous position nothing will.
Read the whole context from the Morgan interview. Here’s what this article said about it:
>>>>>“Whats your view of abortion?” Morgan asks Cain in the interview.
“I believe that life begins at conception and abortion under no circumstances. And here’s why,” Cain said before Morgan interrupted him and asked, “No circumstances?” to which the presidential candidate replied, “No circumstances.”
Morgan told Cain that that sets him apart from many other Republican candidates who are pro-life but also believe in exceptions such as rape or incest or the life of the mother. He continued by asking Cain if he would ant his daughter or granddaught5er, if raped, to keep the baby — which Cain said “was mixing two things.”
“It’s not the government’s role, or anybody else’s role to make that decision,” Cain responded. “Secondly, if you look at the statistical incidence, 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.”
Morgan told Cain that his views on the question of abortion are important because he may very well become president someday and turn into public policy.
“Not they don’t,” Cain said of his views becoming law. “I can have an opinion on an issue without it being a directive on the nation. The government shouldn’t be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to a social decision that they need to make.”
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After saying that he doesn’t believe in abortion after rape, Cain was asked if he would want his daughter to KEEP (IOW, not put up for adoption) a child conceived through rape. His remarks after that are in response to that specific question: ADOPTION VERSUS RAISING THE CHILD YOURSELF, AFTER A RAPE.
People are working very, very hard to misrepresent what Cain has said. It was Morgan who suggested that whatever Cain would decide for his own family in the ADOPTION VERSUS RAISING THE CHILD YOURSELF AFTER RAPE issue is what he would force every woman to do if he became POTUS. Cain said that the government isn’t supposed to decide that for families.
Note that Morgan was trying very hard to make it seem that Cain would legislate that same choice for everybody - that government should require a mother to RAISE a child conceived through rape rather than put the child up for adoption. Cain HAD to confront her in the way that he did. Morgan’s framing allowed sound-bites that, if TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT, would seem to be pro-choice. SOMEBODY IS BANKING ON PEOPLE’S WILLINGNESS TO HEAR ONLY A SOUND-BITE AND BEING TOO LAZY TO CHECK OUT CONTEXT.
These people are messing with us. Let’s not be part of the problem. We HAVE to read the whole context.