Then again he seems to understand the role of a president pretty well when asked to state his policy position.
“Yesterday in an interview with Piers Morgan on CNN, I was asked questions about abortion policy and the role of the President.I understood the thrust of the question to ask whether that I, as president, would simply “order” people to not seek an abortion.
My answer was focused on the role of the President. The President has no constitutional authority to order any such action by anyone. That was the point I was trying to convey.
"As to my political policy view on abortion, I am 100% pro-life. End of story.
I will appoint judges who understand the original intent of the Constitution. Judges who are committed to the rule of law know that the Constitution contains no right to take the life of unborn children.
I will oppose government funding of abortion. I will veto any legislation that contains funds for Planned Parenthood. I will do everything that a President can do, consistent with his constitutional role, to advance the culture of life."
Watch the phony "pro-life" RINOs try to say that's not a pro-life policy.
I agree he’s got some key elements of prolife policy theory under control, but there are serious divisions within the prolife movement itself as to how to proceed at both state and federal levels. For example, while I favor the overturning of Roe v Wade, I also want a federal personhood amendment that piggybacks on the 14th to provide the states with a basis for treating the unborn as legal persons in their own right, regardless of their biological dependency on the mother. That is a big improvement on the federal framework, but not an outright federal ban on the specific act of abortion.
However, there are scenarios where either approach, however well intended, could be co-opted by statists to aggrandize the power of the federal beyond original constitutional boundaries. That’s why I am saying Cain needs to get with someone who has already digested all that and can give him some help on messaging, because there are elements of the prolife community for whom his current presentation is problematic. Are they enough in number or influence to make a difference? I don’t know. But they need not be lost at all. Cain just needs to go the extra mile and have a definite view on a comprehensive prolife policy strategy, the details of which he can expound upon and defend comfortably.