Posted on 10/30/2011 10:08:40 AM PDT by markomalley
Herman Cain again attempted to clarify his position on abortion Sunday, declaring on CBS' "Face the Nation" that "I am pro-life from conception, period" - and that he does not support exceptions even for victims of rape and incest.
"I am pro-life from conception, period. If people look at many speeches that I have given over the years, that has and will still be my position," Cain told CBS' Bob Schieffer.
Cain's position on abortion has been questioned in recent weeks, after the candidate suggested in an interview on CNN that decisions about abortion should be left to families, not the government.
"What I'm saying is, it ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make," Cain said in that interview. "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."
Cain has since maintained his pro-life stance on abortion, but many have said his comments seem to indicate otherwise.
Cain said today that the CNN interview was "taken totally out of context" and suggested that his comments were misrepresentative of his actual beliefs.
"So in other words you don't... would not even believe in abortion if rape, incest or the health of the mother was involved?" asked Schieffer.
"Yes, that's my position," he said. "Thanks for having me clear that up."
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Unfortunately, Mr. Cain was talking about abortion today, and during the Morgan/CNN interview. He never mentioned adoption in that discussion.
He gave the same confusing answer in July, 2011 on the Stossel show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WELkanHrSqw
and he didn’t mention adoption the day after the Morgan interview, on Fox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyeAsWV9HEc
“I am pro-life from conception, period” - and that he does not support exceptions even for victims of rape and incest.”
Cain has proven himself to be the only real conservative in the GOP race and is the only candidate worthy of support.
“A woman that has been raped or impregnated by a relative or her life is in danger should have the choice to terminate the pregnancy.”
Then, you must also believe that a mother who was the victim of rape or incest should have the choice to murder her child when he is ten years old.
born December 13, 1945 in Memphis, TN (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Luther Cain Jr., born March 16, 1925 in TN, died March 29, 1982 in Atlanta, GA
Lenora Davis, born July 27, 1925 in GA, died August 20, 2005 in Atlanta, GA
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of his birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Herman Cain is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama ISN'T!
Click on the cane.
It doesn't clear it up for me, Herman. Do you want it a federal law banning it all those cases? If so, should the women who have abortions be subject to it or just the abortionist? Do you even want Roe V. Wade overturned?
I'm confident that you are a yes on the last point, but your answers seem to indicate that you don't understand the debate.
If Perry goes away, I think you are going to be gutted, skinned and nailed to the barn door by the establishment in less than 999 seconds.
“If Perry goes away, I think you are going to be gutted, skinned and nailed to the barn door by the establishment in less than 999 seconds.”
Rick Perry has gone away as he is polling at 4% and is not relevant in this race.
Rick Perry has not gone away. He has not announced he's dropping out and he's got tons of money and some influential endorsements.
If Perry announces he's quitting expect the hacking to start on Cain.
BTW, if Perry does quit Cain becomes my guy and I hope he can stand up to what comes.
Cain has the focus of the media to be able to now tear down the Wizard’s curtain, forever.
When the time comes my house will vote for Herman Cain. Never, ever for Romney. No way for Perry. Newt had his chance and blew it.
Herman Cain is the real deal.
Perry only has 4% to give to the race.
In other words, if he were to drop out of the race on Monday, his 4% would hardly be a factor when distributed among the remaining candidates.
"As to my political policy view on abortion, I am 100% pro-life. End of story.""I will appoint judges who understand the original intent of the Constitution. Judges who are committed to the rule of law know that the Constitution contains no right to take the life of unborn children."
"I will oppose government funding of abortion. I will veto any legislation that contains funds for Planned Parenthood. I will do everything that a President can do, consistent with his constitutional role, to advance the culture of life."
Herman Cain
"I do not believe that abortion should be legal in this country if that is the question." - Herman Cain
Not at all.
Would you want your daughter to be forced to raise a baby by someone that raped and tortured her....reliving the rape every time she looked at the baby?
If so, you would be sentencing your daughter to a lifetime of terror and most likely severe mental illness. Why destroy two lives?
I’m on the “Cain Train” for now, but his absolutist statement has made me rethink. Same with Santorum who said the same thing and fell big-time in the polls the day after.
Right on! adoption works.
He also did very well ti cite Margaret Sanger who founded Planned Parenthood on the basis of eugenics. Cain was more direct and I’m hoping that every liberal black person was watching and goes out to check it for themselves.
He said that? Wow, excellent. And finally. I too hope black women faced with an unwanted pregnancy think about that.
Santorum is wasting money on ads? That alone proves he would make a bad President. Doesn’t have good economic sense.
Would you want your daughter to be forced to raise a baby by someone that raped and tortured her....reliving the rape every time she looked at the baby?
If so, you would be sentencing your daughter to a lifetime of terror and most likely severe mental illness. Why destroy two lives?
Ok, you are pretty far from reality. I don’t remember his name but we have a fellow freeper here who came to be after his mother, a young virgin, was raped by a stranger, long before any morning after pills, and not only was this man adored by his mother, but he is enjoying his life! Life! Always choose it.
The unborn are innocent of however they were conceived.
But I do believe in letting rape victims take hormone pills the next day to make their uterus inhospitable, ie the morning after pill. Most likely she wasn’t pregnant anyway, so I approve of the now standard morning after pill for raped girls. Fast enough and the egg hadn’t met the sperm yet anyway!
Why do you believe it is okay to murder a child that was conceived by rape?
Should a mother be able to murder her five year old child if that child was conceived via rape?
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