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[Music] Female Announcer: First we learned that Herman Cain was pro-TARP and supported the Wall Street bailouts. 

The we learned Cain's 999 plan is pro-tax increase for 84-percent of Americans. 

Now, the most troubling news of all is Herman Cain's newly discovered pro-choice position on abortion.

Piers Morgan: You've had children, grandchildren.  Cain: Yes.  Yes...  Morgan: If one of your female children, grandchildren was raped, you would honestly want her to bring up that baby as her own?  Cain: 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 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 try to tell them what decision to make for such a sensitive decision.  Morgan: But by expressing...

Female Announcer: But that's not the first time Cain expressed his pro-choice views.

Stossel: If a woman is raped, she should not be allowed to end her pregnancy?  Cain: That's her choice.  That is not government's choice..."

Female Announcer: And Cain's announcement of his pro-choice position certainly hasn't gone unnoticed. 

Pro-life leader Alan Keyes called Cain "pro-choice" and said Herman Cain's position is the same position taken by abortion rights Democrats like Hillary Clinton.

Conservative leader Steve Deace described Cain's position as favoring baby murder in cases of rape and incest.

Bob Vander Plaats, a highly respected Iowa social conservative, said Cain's position is a pro-choice position.

Craig Robinson, a former Iowa GOP official wrote, basically Cain's position as a candidate is that of pro-abortion activists.

The head of Concerned Women for America said, last week Herman Cain said he didn't support a federal marriage amendment.  This week he backed away from his earlier position on the sanctity of human life.

The Washington Post described Cain's position as, "an essentially pro-abortion rights position."

And Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association said Cain's position could have come right out of the Planned Parenthood playbook.

And what did Herman Cain say when asked if abortion should be part of the political discussion?

FOX Newswoman: Should abortion be a part of the political discussion?  Cain: No it should not...

Female Announcer: The 1.2 million babies aborted in the U.S. last year think otherwise.

Herman Cain.  The more we learn, the more concerned we become.

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Notes: Cain did issue a statement following his appearance on Piers Morgan:

Thursday, October 20, 2011

“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. “

Herman Cain

Copyright © 2011 Eric M. Appleman/Democracy in Action.