Posted on 10/17/2011 9:34:36 AM PDT by julieee
Herman Cain Presses No Compromise Pro-Life View on Abortion
Washington, DC -- Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain pressed a no compromise pro-life view on abortion during a weekend interview with Meet The Press, and told host David Gregory he would not support abortion, including in cases of rape or incest.
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/10/17/herman-cain-presses-no-compromise-pro-life-view-on-abortion/
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Good for Cain. The ONLY reason to oppose abortion is the belief that the fetus has individual rights of its own regardless of how it is conceived.
One reason Herman can speak so easily and without a teleprompter is that he knows what he believes and isn't afraid of stepping on his crank.
Like anyone he can get a fact wrong now and then, but he knows his values.
Agreed. Pro-lifers make a tactical error with the rape/incest exception.
How so?
AND here he explains his 999 plan:
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Actually he was a bit contradictory in his response. After firmly stating his opposition to abortion under any circumstances - even under rape and incest after Gregory trotted out those favored liberal examples, noting that the examples where those might be called for are so incredibly rare - he later seeming to reverse his position when Gregory brought up ‘life of the mother’. Cain’s response, that family would have to make that decision, seems to indicate some wiggle-room in his position.
If all life is sacred , and it begins at conception, than a life created by rape/incest is still sacred. Making an exception for rape/ incest means one is making a judgment of who will live and who will die.
because it still devalues the innocent. it turns a rape victim into a murderer.
LIFE OF THE MOTHER IS THE ONLY EXCEPTION.
Usually, if the mother dies, so does the baby. Better one death than two.
We need for him to drop his 999 plan.
I *ant* a thriving stock market! I want a decreased tax burden. I want the 80,000 page tax code reduced to nothing. I want jobs coming out of our ears! I want the rest of the world outsourcing jobs to US! I want gas prices dropping!
Go Cain! Give us back a thriving America! :)
>> “Cains response, that family would have to make that decision, seems to indicate some wiggle-room in his position.” <<
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The “wiggle” is between your ears, and its about as wide as a basketball court. There has never been a case of an abortion saving the life of the mother, but abortions have cost the life of the mother over a million times.
Cain’s answer was the only possible one to give to such a mendacious question.
>We need for him to drop his 999 plan.<
Why? It addresses business concerns. It addresses jobs. It addresses faiarness.
Now you state your case.
>> “Better one death than two.” <<
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Better that humans not tamper with life at all.
I understand the “rape/incest exception” from a political perspective, but it makes no sense. If the fetus is a living being, it has the right to life regardless of how it was conceived. If it isn’t a living being, we have no business telling women what to do with it, regardless of how it was conceived.
>> “I want jobs coming out of our ears!” <<
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That is one of the best reasons to get him to drop the 999 nonsense; a sales tax will cost millions of small business jobs.
A sales tax here will do the same as a sales tax (VAT) did to europe: Wipe out most small businesses, and small business is over 80% of American jobs.
Cain didn’t invent that nonsense, and he needs to drop it before the general election, because it could be used to crush him.
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