{"id":2705,"date":"2011-10-21T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/is-herman-cain-pro-choice.html"},"modified":"2011-10-21T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T08:42:00","slug":"is-herman-cain-pro-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/is-herman-cain-pro-choice.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Herman Cain Pro-Choice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white;color: #333333;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 14px;line-height: 20px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;font-size: 14px;font: inherit;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 15px;vertical-align: baseline\">There\u2019s no doubt that Herman Cain is a fiscal conservative. He never misses a chance to promote his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2011\/10\/republican-debate-herman-cain-defends-9-9-9-romney-stays-afloat\/\" style=\"color: #30659c;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;text-decoration: none\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">999 plan<\/a>\u00a0or outline his vision for economic growth and recovery. Most of his stump speeches focus on the economy, foreign policy, immigration, even energy independence.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;font-size: 14px;font: inherit;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 15px;vertical-align: baseline\">Rarely do social issues come up, specifically the conservative hot topic of abortion. When Cain has addressed the issue, he says he believes that life begins with conception. And he doesn\u2019t believe that abortion should be allowed \u2013 ever \u2013 even in cases of rape or incest. His seemingly pro-life stance usually garners some applause from his audience.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;font-size: 14px;font: inherit;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 15px;vertical-align: baseline\">Cain reiterated his pro-life stance during his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/10\/19\/herman-cain-on-gop-field-respects-romney-and-gingrich-most-ron-paul-least\/?iref=allsearch\" style=\"color: #30659c;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;text-decoration: none\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">interview with Piers Morgan on CNN Wednesday night<\/a>; but the takeaway was surprisingly revealing in that the one-time associate Baptist minister stated that it was the right of the individual to make personal decisions.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;font-size: 14px;font: inherit;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 15px;vertical-align: baseline\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2011\/10\/is-herman-cain-pro-choice\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no doubt that Herman Cain is a fiscal conservative. 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