Actually, listen to the question he was asked. It wasn't "should she carry the baby to term", the question was "should she raise the baby"
You then hear Cain objecting to the mixing of the question, then he answers it
I'm a Cain supporter, but I'll concede that he's tried to get a little "cute" in his interviews before, and he's made some gaffs then tried to back-pedal before, but I don't believe this is one of those times.
I think he was seriously believing that the interviewer had departed from the abortion issue and was now asking about the raising of the child.
Rookie mistake, and our boy has GOT to get better at this or these guys will eat him for lunch.
In an interview about abortion, it is hard to see how Cain could have interpreted Pier’s question to be about keeping the child vs adopting them. I guess it’s possible, because I have noticed Cain isn’t always articulate when it comes to questions he isn’t expecting.
I guess we will have to wait for his clarification again. It’s an easy enough question to ask.
But I read his summary statement as emphasizing that he would not translate all of his abortion views into law, which would make no sense if he WAS going to support a law banning all abortions including rape and incest. He certainly wasn’t talk about adoption in THAT part of the interview.