Posted on 10/20/2011 2:31:23 PM PDT by casinva
Part of Herman Cain's appeal to GOP presidential primary voters was that he seemed to have more street cred with social conservatives than the putative front runner, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Doubts about Romney have helped fuel Cain's recent rise in the polls, putting him in a virtual dead-heat with Romney.
But in an interview Wednesday night with CNN's Piers Morgan, Cain raised some new questions about his stance on social issues. When Morgan asked the former Godfather's Pizza CEO about his beliefs on abortion and contraception, Cain said he believes life begins at conception and that he supports "abortion under no circumstances." But, according to a CNN transcript, Cain drew a sharp line between his personal beliefs and the role government should play:
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.
When Morgan pressed him, saying he couldn't hide behind being "the pizza guy," and that, as president, his views would become "a directive to the nation," Cain reiterated his government-hands-off-abortion stance:
No they don't. 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 social decisions that they need to make.
See the actual interview here:
http://youtu.be/OPKYYDefMV4
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Human Events 10/20/2011 http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46999
Are social conservatives OK with this?
He’s legislatively pro-choice? How much legislation has he passed?
WE'D BETTER GET OUR ACT TOGETHER AND GET UNITIED...THEY ARE DIVIDING US....a
CNN has been in trouble with social conservatives for a while, though.
Nice try, Perrywinkle. Cain addressed you sillies on his facebook today: ‘I’m 100% pro life. End of story.’
What he is saying is that as President he can’t force his beliefs onto the rest of the citizens of this country. If the Presidency allowed for waving a wand and abolishing abortion, I think Reagan would have done that. Its going to take the Supremes to overturn Roe v Wade.
If you want a Presidency that can FORCE their beliefs onto the citizens, then stop whining about Barak/Michelle Obama.
Where's my ballot?
From:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46999
Update: Herman Cain said via Twitter this afternoon: “I’m 100% pro-life. End of story.” So I guess anyone who was rationalizing his previously declared “I’m personally opposed to abortion but I don’t think the government should interfere with it” position is out of luck.
Unless “I’m 100% pro-life. End of story” isn’t the end of the story.
Precisely the reason Perry's campaign is doomed.
Aren’t we a better country if it doesn’t matter if they’re legal because they just don’t happen? Since we already know they happened when illegal the smart battle really is at hearts and minds.
Nice try. Actually, kinda pathetic, considering you’re boy is polling behind Ron Paul.
“I oppose abortion, personally. I don’t like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception.”
I cannot tell you how deeply I respect the belief about life and when it begins. I’m a Catholic – raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life, helped lead me through a war, leads me today.
“But I can’t take what is an article of faith for me and legislate it for someone who doesn’t share that article of faith, whether they be agnostic, atheist, Jew, Protestant, whatever. I can’t do that. But I can counsel people, I can talk reasonably about life and about responsibility.
-— John Kerry, 2004
Helping the commies at NPR decide whom conservatives and Tea Party folks should not vote for, eh? Let’s let media whoredom tell us how to construct and apply a purity test, so the mooselimb liar, barry soetoro can be re-elected and finish off the Republic.
Your premise is garbage and you know it. Stop it FGS!
Same argument the Catholic Democrats like Pelosi, Leahy, Kennedy, Biden, Mikulski, Kerry, etc., etc. use.
Do you want a President that can force his faith on you? Think real hard about who is in the WH right now before you answer that.
I’m Ok with a Herman Cain for POTUS, yes!!
So glad we got all the other problems facing our country settled. Am I the only one to notice the loudest anti-abortion voices are men who can’t get pregnant? FWIW, I agree with Herman Cain.
Is Herman Cain In Trouble With Social Conservatives?
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No.
Sheesh. All day long we’ve had thread after thread on a very simple answer by Mr. Cain. He is 100 percent pro-life
But these liberal butt-wipes cannot stop spinning this Piers Morgan interview.
“It turns out that presidential candidate Herman Cain is personally pro-life, but legislatively pro-choice.” This was not said or inferred by Mr. Cain. It is sheer made-up BS by libtards who want to sow seeds of discourse.
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