Herman Cain and Abortion [POLL]

Yesterday was a pretty eventful day for GOP candidate Herman Cain and not in a good way. The campaign spent the day spinning recent interviews that Cain did including his latest with Piers Morgan on CNN where the issue of abortion came up. In that interview Cain came off sounding pretty pro-life. Yesterday the Cain campaign released this statement according to Hot Air.

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.”

When I first read his statement I still wasn't buying it. Apparently other people aren't either.

No one on either side is arguing that the president has a constitutional power to issue executive orders barring women from having abortions. I’ve never heard even a diehard pro-lifer suggest that, so in essence, he wants you to believe here that he was responding with a point that no one disputes to a question that no one ever asks. Which means either he’s lying about what he understood Morgan’s question to meanor he’s so unacquainted with the most basic terms of the abortion debate that he genuinely felt obliged to reassure Americans that he won’t be sending the FBI to pregnant women’s homes to make sure they carry to term. Bad, bad news either way.

Beyond that, though, it’s simply not true that his response to Morgan was couched in terms of the limits of presidential power. Go back and watch the clip again. Morgan asks him what he’d want his daughter or granddaughter to do and Cain quickly arrives at this answer

If you listen to Cain's answer to Morgan, than you hear him discussing Government as a whole. Not just the President.

Here's what we want to know, does this issue hurt Herman Cain? Have you changed your mind about him?