In an interview Wednesday with CNN, Cain said he believes life begins at conception. "And abortion under no circumstances," he added. But Cain also said "it's not the government's role or anybody else's role to make that decision," according to a CNN transcript. This is where Cain and many others are wrong. The issue around abortion is not the making of a decision but the saving of lives. Abortion is the intentional killing of innocent, unborn children (http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/wdlb/wdlb.html). If babies were killed instantly after delivery, it would be called murder. There is no discrepancy - if a child comes out of the womb he was a child within the womb. Therefore, if he is protected without he should be protected within. Preventing abortion is no more an attempt to legislate morality than jailing murderers. There are matters of conscience and matters of right and wrong. In our pluralistic and relativistic society, we are afraid to address absolutes. But whether or not we address them, they exist. Therefore, Americans cannot be afraid to take a stand, to make it known that they do not want to live in a country that allows the murder of unborn children. A country that will not protect its children will not long be protected. A people that do not rally around virtue will soon fall to ruin. In his 1793 Farewell Address, George Washington labeled morality an "indispensable support" to freedom. A people not held accountable will not be held together.
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