Posted on 10/20/2011 6:40:19 PM PDT by wmfights
Just isn't happening. Now you can believe it's happening but it's not.
Right. None of these candidates measure up. Codifying the killing of certain classes of persons is immoral and unconstitutional.
His comments are so confusing I think you might be right that on a personal level he is Pro-Life. However, he doesn't want the govt involved in the decision of the mother. IOW, the same argument a lot of other politicians make, "I'm Pro-Life but the govt shouldn't be involved."
I think this explains why he wouldn't sign the Pro-Life pledge.
That’s not what he said on the radio yesterday. He took a pro-life position.
Great post!
I'm sure that will satisfy a lot of folks. I've read the article a couple times and see the typical politician talking out of both sides of his mouth. "I oppose it personally, but the govt shouldn't be involved".
The fact that he has to go back and explain again is a big red flag. He's had to do this on a lot of other things as well. Now he's getting a pass because he's inexperienced. It sure reminds me of the Joe the plumber moment. All the obama supporters were so caught up in the personality they didn't want to see the big red flag that obama was a socialist.
It sure looks like we are seeing the same thing from Cain supporters on his positions on social issues.
Cain says he supports a pro-life amendment.
I don’t think an amendment is needed. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments already cover it. But that is a strongly pro-life position. Such an amendment would outlaw abortion.
An archived search of Cain’s campaign website shows that he routinely attacked Isakson for wavering on abortion rights, chastising him in an early radio ad for voting “to allow abortions in our tax-funded military hospitals overseas.” (The bill had simply allowed servicemen or women serving overseas to use personal funds on abortion.)
In an early television ad he introduced himself, first and foremost, as a believer of life from conception.
In an issue paper on his website, meanwhile, he said he would oppose abortion in the case of pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, as well as the use of tax dollars that “could encourage abortion as a ‘solution’ to problem pregnancies.”
Beyond the confines of a carefully managed campaign website, Cain was even more outspoken. He told the Washington Post that he considers “plausible” a theory that the abortion rights group, Planned Parenthood, was established to systematically lower the black population.
“One of the motivations was killing black babies,” he said, “because they didn’t want to deal with the problems of illiteracy and poverty.”
(He’s entirely right about that, BTW. And that’s still its mission.)
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