You need to listen to the interview and not get your news second hand. Cain is NOT pro abortion.
Look, I am solidly in Cain’s camp but truth is he had a redo on this and he still screwed it up. He had his chance to say that the choice is adoption or rearing the rape child and not abortion. He clearly leaves the impression that families have the choice for abortion. Personally I am more concerned about the economy and my main focus remains on Cain to solve that.
This is what he has said all along. People (egged on by the media) have been twisting his statements to make him appear pro-abortion. He has been a lifelong strong pro-life champion.
Cain is pro choice and he chooses life over death like some other supposed “pro choice” types.
Herman Cain on Abortion
http://www.ontheissues.org/2012/Herman_Cain_Abortion.htm
African American Businessman Spends 1M to Urge Blacks to Vote Pro-Life (2006)
http://www.lifenews.com/2006/09/13/nat-2583/
Herman Cain Reaffirms Commitment to Pro-Life Principles
http://secure.campaigner.com/Campaigner/Public/t.show?LVMF—8Oz3-WCSgU7
Cain Picks Clarence Thomas as Model for Supreme Court Pick
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/232604/20111017/herman-cain-clarence-thomas-supreme-court.htm
2004 - Herman Cain blasts Roe v. Wade (Free Republic - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/1063707/posts
And Alveda King affirmed on Facebook that she knew and worked with Cain on Pro-life issues over the years and testifies that he is Prolife
Herman Cain: Defund Racist Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/01/18/herman-cain-defund-racist-planned-parenthood-abortion-biz/
Herman Cain: Planned Parenthood Should Be Called ‘Planned Genocide’
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/herman-cain-planned-parenthood-should-be-called-planned-genocide.php
Herman Cain was endorsed by the Georgia Right-To-Life PAC in the 2004 US Senate GOP primary. Cain’s primary challenger from 2004, Johnny Isakson, had a pro-choice streak in his voting record and it was the reason why GRTL endorsed him.
Life, liberty & pursuit of happiness starts with unborn life
The Founding Fathers got it right. The Founding Fathers got it right because of those fundamental principles: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They also got it in the right order. That wasn’t an accident. Their vision meant that you could pursue happiness in America as long as you don’t infringe upon the liberties of somebody else. And you can pursue all the liberties that you want as long as you don’t infringe upon the life of anybody else. And that starts with the life of the unborn.
Source: , May 1, 2011
Defund Planned Parenthood; intent was to kill black babies
I absolutely would defund Planned Parenthood—not because I don’t believe in planning parenthood, [but because] Planned Parenthood as an organization is an absolute farce on the American people.
People who know the history of Margaret Sanger, who started Planned Parenthood, they know that the intention was not to help young women who get pregnant to plan their parenthood. No—it was a sham to be able to kill black babies.
Source: Interview on the Bryan Fischer radio show , Jan 18, 2011
Life begins at conception, period
I believe that life begins at conception, period. And that means that I will have to see enough evidence that someone I would appoint shares that same view. I believe that the current Supreme Court is leaning too much to the liberal side.
I’m a Christian, I’ve been a Christian all my life. I’ve been a believer in the Bible since I was 10 years old. I’m very active in my church, and there is no way I would compromise my religious beliefs about the sanctity of life. And so it starts with, will they have demonstrated, in some of their other rulings, if they come from the federal judge bench, whether or not they also share that.
Because I believe that the principles that our Founding Fathers cherished, when they founded this country, and wrote the Declaration of Independence which inspired the Constitution, they were based upon biblical principles. I want to get back to those principles as president, if I run and get elected—not rewrite those documents.
ontheissues.org
A different story from Cain on every issue almost every day. Now the left would give him the heat and he has to change his opinion yet again on abortion. Wait for a new opinion on abortion in the next few days.
Roe v Wade was (wrongly) decided as a constitutional issue and a president cannot simply sweep that aside or use 'executive privilege' to circumvent a constitutional right. Cain has stated that he would de-fund (via congress) Planned Parenthood's annual federal stipend and nominate solid pro-life Supreme Court judges. I'm sure Mr. Cain would make his opposition to abortion quite well known, were he president, because the leftmedia would bring it up often in an effort to push President Cain (I like the look of that) to either waffle on his pro-life position or simply hope that by pushing him to re-state it again and again, help mount opposition to Cain from the left, as if that were even necessary.
The bottom line for me and, I assume, other Cain supporters, is that the man is a Christian and firmly pro-life. He isn't going to have a dramatic change of heart on this life-or-death issue. At 65 years old, he knows what he believes. I happen to agree with Herman Cain and those who will still find something to complain about on his position on abortion will likely never be placated so I have interest in trying. Perhaps they'll find Rick Santorum more palatable.
Here is exactly what Cain said,
“No, it comes down to is, 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 try to tell them what decision to make for such a sensitive decision.”
Now, he's trying to say something else completely:
“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.”"
Government and those who govern do decide what "should not be legal."