Posted on 10/22/2011 5:50:47 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Full Title: Cain clarifies again: Abortion shouldn’t be legal, but some families might decide to break the law anyway.
A better answer than yesterday’s spin attempt but Mediaite is right that it still doesn’t jibe with what he said to Piers Morgan. Then:
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…
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.
Now:
Look, abortion should not be legal. That is clear. But if that family makes the decision to break the law, that’s that family’s decision. That’s all I’m trying to say.
Big difference between (a) the government shouldn’t tell you what to do about “sensitive” social decisions and (b) the government should tell you what to do by criminalizing one of your options. In fact, per Heinze at the The Hill and Philip Klein at the Examiner, even in today’s answer there’s an element of choice insofar as Cain suggests that a pregnant woman might end up breaking the law to get an illegal abortion. That’s, er, true — some of them would end up doing that — but it’s an odd note for a man in his position to sound. Rarely do would-be presidents acknowledge lawbreaking as an option
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The power of zot to the power of JR.
I guess presently no credibility account thought it was a joke.
Presently no posting privileges!!!
I don't know, there's no way to tell unless he's posting again in a week or 2. If that's what he said then my guess is it's a ban.
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