It is very confusing because the interviewer was mixing things up, and then Cain got mixed up too. The interviewer said raise the baby versus go for adoption, but when Cain spoke about government keeping out of it, he couldn’t have been talking about that decision, because the government doesn’t try to make that decision.
I think we have a case of a pro-abort interviewer, purposely perhaps, trying to emotionalize the issue by bringing up raising a rapist’s child, when that is not a pro-life/pro-abort decision at all and should have nothing to do with it.
Cain is going to have to clarify this. My guess is that he would like to repeal Roe and leave it to the states. The president does have something to say about abortion right now, though, so he can’t completely dodge the issue that way. What will he do about the executive orders that affect abortion, for instance, the ones that keep changing back and forth every time a pro-life president or a pro-abort president takes office?
I’m sure we’ll get clarification from Cain on this shortly.
What we have, I believe, is another case of where Cain, when he is questioned by a left-wing journalist who presses him with these types of questions, caves in and tries to sound more reasonable.
Like when a journalist asked him about the Texas rock, and Cain attacked Perry for being insensitive even though Perry had nothing to do with the rock.
Or when a reporter pestered Cain about the gay soldier’s question being booed, and Cain wilted and said he should have chastised the audience.
I agree with you that Cain couldn’t have meant the issue of raising a kid vs adoption, because nobody has ever suggested we should force mothers to raise their own children.
The correct answer was — “Yes. It is a tragedy when a woman is raped, but we don’t compound that tragedy with murder. Yes, a woman is traumatized by her attack, and may feel a continued violation because of the child. But the woman also feels a continued violation because her attacker lives, yet we don’t allow the woman to hunt down her rapist and kill him. If we wouldn’t allow a woman to kill the man who raped her, even though his continued life traumatizes her, why would we allow her to kill an innocent baby who is as much a victim of the rapist as she is?”
"If one of your female children, grandchildren was raped, you would honestly want her to bring up that baby as her own?" Morgan asked.
Cain said that Morgan was "mixing" questions, but then replied:
"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."
I don't know how he could make it any clearer then this. People around here who are emotionally tied to other candidates in the campaign need to keep in mind the 9th Commandment is not a suggestion.
Bearing false witness is still a sin.