Herman Cain is Pro-Choice?

Despite his avowal that “life begins at conception” and that he does not support abortion, Herman Cain appears to be pro-choice.  From an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan (my bolding): 

On another hot-button topic, Cain said he believes life “begins at conception” and “under no circumstances” does he support abortion.

But he seemed to qualify his opposition by saying the decision on whether to have an abortion comes down to a choice by a woman and her family.

“I can have … an opinion with it being a directive to the nation,” he said. “The government shouldn’t be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to social decisions they have to make.”

That latter statement seems a bit like the NARAL about keeping the government out of a woman’s uterus. 

I suspect Mr. Cain does not understand that by definition, he is pro-choice, doesn’t understand the state of the issue among conservatives in America, who demand lockstep devotion to the pro-life cause, and that there’s a whole lot about many other social issues that he does not understand.  Hey, even in this article he takes the radical stand that being gay is based on a choice. 

I’m waiting for the extremist right wing of the Republican Party in Iowa and South Carolina especially, since they’re early primaries, to start pressing Mr. Cain about why he is pro-choice.