Cain wants complete control over a woman's body. But he doesn't want to discuss his own past

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/8587684-452/the-scandal-is-in-what-cain-believes.html

By NEIL STEINBERG [email protected] November 3, 2011 6:52PM

Updated: November 4, 2011 2:17AM

So this is what puzzles me.

Just before allegations surfaced of supposed boorish behavior by Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, he was on the Sunday morning TV talk shows explaining his complete opposition to allowing American women to decide whether to have an abortion. He is, he said, opposed in all situations — even rape or incest — with no exceptions. If a woman’s life is imperiled by pregnancy, well tough, go ahead and die.

Cain is, he told CBS’s “Face the Nation,” “pro-life from conception, period.”

Nothing puzzling there, of course. The standard Republican Party line, endorsed by all candidates — even those who, like Cain, once were nearly pro-choice. snip

No, the puzzling part is this: How can the country get worked up about Cain perhaps crudely hitting on three women — and what that would imply about him — when he’s just announced he’d like to undermine the legal status of all women in America, to remove their control over their own lives, washing away their progress in the workplace and duckwalking them back to the 1950s?