Posted on 10/20/2011 6:40:19 PM PDT by wmfights
At least I know where Gov. Perry stands.
Perry has a strong pro-life political record. Cain has a strong pro-life talk show record. People will have to decide which is more impressive.
I like the fact that Perry did NOT attack Cain, he just stated his position. Too bad the others didn’t do that for him.
Cain’s “fatal” flaw is that he actually answers question honestly.
He was asked about whether a rape victim should be forced to “keep” her baby. It was implicitly about adoption, and a poorly worded question.
It was quite clear to me. He is against abortion and will install Judges that will enable an overturn of Roe v Wade, but he will not be a king and impose his personal choice on any individual. He is against it in all cases and has a history of a pro-life activist. That is a constitutional conservative voicing his love of individual liberty. No one in America orders free men or commands them. The Libs are trying to trip him with gotcha questions to make it appear confusing just as they are with the 9-9-9.
Cain said he’s 100% pro life on Hannity’s talk show today. I’ll take the man at his word. Lets stop making him out to be Rudy Giuliani on the issue?
“At least I know where Gov. Perry stands.”
Do you now?
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/1043417825.html
"I believe that life begins at conception. And abortion under no circumstances," Cain said. Morgan asked Cain if that meant he felt the procedure was impermissible in cases of rape and incest, which many anti-abortion activists and conservatives carve out exceptions for. Cain reiterated that there were "no circumstances" under which he supported abortion. "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."
Morgan had asked a new question regarding 'bring her up as your own'- Cain was responding to raising the child (versus giving up for adoption). People are incorrectly responding to that as if he was saying if abortion should be legal.
It is becoming a pattern.
Agreed. Listen, Cain is a man, plus has held no political office. He can ONLY have an opinion on abortion. He has the same position as all other candidates but Romney.
There is no one on Free Republic more anti-abortion than me. I don’t even agree with exceptions for rape, life of the mother, etc.
That said, government cannot force people to live honorably.
Our societal rot cannot be solved by Washington, even by good leaders in office. Abortion, as well as immoral behavior of all other kinds, grows from hearts full of evil in a society that not only condones but applauds it.
Cain is absolutely correct that free people make choices to behave badly. Washington cannot help that.
We’ve let our society deteriorate to the point that we are now in a miserable and godless time.
The answer is to change hearts. The question is whether it is too late.
Bearing False Witness is still a sin.
What is being reported here , and what was actually said by Cain, are two completely different things.
"I believe that life begins at conception. And abortion under no circumstances," Cain said. Morgan asked Cain if that meant he felt the procedure was impermissible in cases of rape and incest, which many anti-abortion activists and conservatives carve out exceptions for.
Cain reiterated that there were "no circumstances" under which he supported abortion. "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.
I didn't know putting up millions upon millions of your own dollars toward pro-life causes is a 'talk show' record? He has always been a pro-life champion and that was never questioned until the media started playing with everyone to tear down all the Conservative candidates so they can anoint Romney.
Herman Cain: Defund Racist Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz
Herman Cain...statement after the Senate voted to ban Partial-Birth Abortion:
Good point
Cain says life begins at conception and he opposes abortion. So does John Kerry! But Kerry also supports abortion rights through government. Sounds like Cain believes government has no role in the abortion issue.
Which is it, Herman?
I’ve decided that you perrywinkles are absolutely crazy...
go sit in a hole your candidate is a loser.
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