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You guys are leaving off important context. Here’s the relevant portion from that article. Note that Morgan’s question was whether Cain would want HIS DAUGHTER TO KEEP A CHILD CONCEIVED THROUGH RAPE. That is the question Cain’s remarks are responding to, and it is MORGAN who says that whatever Cain says about his own daughter raising a child conceived through rape means that it is what he would legislate - to which Cain responds that he is NOT saying he would legislate that a woman has to KEEP her rape-conceived child (versus aborting the child) or that a woman HAS to sacrifice her own life for her conceived child.

Here is the relevant portion of the article, so everybody here can see the context even though many Freepers do not click to see the full article:

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“Whats your view of abortion?” Morgan asks Cain in the interview.

“I believe that life begins at conception and abortion under no circumstances. And here’s why,” Cain said before Morgan interrupted him and asked, “No circumstances?” to which the presidential candidate replied, “No circumstances.”

Morgan told Cain that that sets him apart from many other Republican candidates who are pro-life but also believe in exceptions such as rape or incest or the life of the mother. He continued by asking Cain if he would ant his daughter or granddaught5er, if raped, to keep the baby — which Cain said “was mixing two things.”

“It’s not the government’s role, or anybody else’s role to make that decision,” Cain responded. “Secondly, if you look at the statistical incidence, 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.”

Morgan told Cain that his views on the question of abortion are important because he may very well become president someday and turn into public policy.

“Not they don’t,” Cain said of his views becoming law. “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 a social decision that they need to make.”