But when did government ever try to tell a woman whether to raise her child or put it up for adoption? Never! So that is not the issue, and couldn’t be what Cain was talking about when he said it shouldn’t be up to the government.
Read the whole context. Morgan implies that whatever Cain would decide for his own family in the “Keep v Adoption” issue is what he would legislate. Suggesting that if Cain thinks a mother should keep her child conceived through rape, he would make that the law of the land. And he responded to that by saying that government shouldn’t be making those kinds of choices for people (clearly meaning the Keep v Adoption choice).
Again, here’s the whole context:
“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.”