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Cain finally explained what he thought that question was about, so we don't have to speculate. Cain ignored the "bring up" part of the question, and never thought it had anything to do with adoption.

“Look, let’s go back,” Cain told the America Live program. “See, he was asking me two questions. My position on abortion has been the same — on pro-life — has been the same throughout this campaign. And that is, I am pro-life from conception and I don’t believe in abortion. When he then tried to pigeon-hole me on my granddaughter being there as a victim of rape, then what would I do?”

See -- he looked at the question as "what would I do if my daugher was a victim or Rape. Nothing about adoption.

“The only point I was trying to make: A lot of families will be in that position and they are not going to be thinking, “Well, what does the government want me to do?” My position is no abortion. My position is no abortion. But all I was trying to point out was take the typical family in this country and you don’t know what they might do in the heat of the moment,” Cain explained.

Again, nothing about adoption -- but rather "heat of the moment" decisions. He then further clarified, making it clear he is talking about ABORTION, not adoption:

“Look, abortion should not be legal,” Cain said a moment later. “That is clear,” he said, adding that anyone who wanted to get an abortion would be breaking the law by doing so: “But if that family made a decision to break the law, that’s that family’s decision.”

So, when Cain answered the question by Morgan, what Cain now SAYS he was answering was that government could not force the family to obey the law, that they could still get an abortion.

So the whole "he was talking about adoption" is defunct -- Cain himself has dismissed that story, although a few Cain supporters still cling to it, I guess because having a fictional theory that has been debunked by their candidate is more comforting to them than the truth, which is that his various comments on abortion were a muddled mess showing little comprehension of the political issues.

Anyway, I have no idea why you brought that up here, because my point in this thread was that his clear statement supporting the human life amendment (and other statements in interviews about using the bully pulpit) show that Cain has finally figured out what his position is, and it's pro-life.

But unfortunately, in doing so he committed a more serious gaffe, in that he showed he doesn't understand how the constitution works, and claimed that the ONE thing he could do was something that is actually the one thing he CANNOT do.

So after a week of telling us all the things he thought the President shouldn't do, he said he'd do something the President cannot do -- on a simple matter of the amendment process, which any reasonably educated american could understand after a 1-minute briefing.