This isn’t a post about Cain himself because one thing we learned four years ago is that the people in the lead now often disappear by nomination time. Here’s a reminder of October 2007. The man who became the Republican nominee, John McCain, had been trailing with 8% of the vote and had just come on the scene this time four years ago, so Cain himself may be a vague memory soon, but the issue of LIFE will not be.

At Bound4Life, we have made a covenant to not vote for any candidate who isn’t pro-life. We are single-issue voters because the issue of LIFE is too important to compromise. When we vote for, for example, the economy, we value money over the unborn. And we know that to cry out for God’s blessing on a land that carelessly spills the blood of its innocent unborn is a hypocritical pipe dream, for God does not bless when we endorse the curse of the enemy.

That said, the presidential campaigns are already in full swing, and we need to remember something. Whether it’s discerning what Cain or any other candidate thinks about abortion, there should be no mystery at all. If we find ourselves having to put words on what a candidate meant: “well, he is pro-life, I know, but he was just saying that big government can’t tell people what to do,” then we have a problem.

The aforementioned comment is one I have heard in regards to both Cain and Ron Paul. The question for me isn’t so much if a candidate is “personally” pro-life. That does matter, but frankly I’d rather see one who does believe it’s the government’s business to stop the national violation of the Constitution of the United States which gives all people who are created (creation of life begins before a baby slides out of the birth canal) than one who is more concerned about shrinking government. When did we come to believe that it was okay to deprive rights to one who had not yet exited the womb?

We are out of hand and out of control with abortion in our nation. The biggest abortion provider in our nation, Planned Parenthood, files lawsuits and starts hate campaigns against “anti-choice extremists” every time it doesn't get its way (“abortion on demand and without apology”). They immediately begin mass campaigns to our governmental leaders and we need someone to can stand up to that with unwavering fortitude. Planned Parenthood is big business run through big government and we need a leader who isn’t afraid to pummel the injustice of abortion.

This column isn’t an endorsement for any candidate, or a statement against one. But let’s be sure we listen in this election season. What candidates did before is a helpful way to view candidates. Have they wavered on issues of LIFE? Have they made any decisions which they have renounced as wrong or do they justify every decision. I’m less concerned about a candidate who once made a bad decision and realized it and turned than one who wavers back and forth and can’t answer a question straight.

We don’t have time to wait and see and hope for the best. For just under 40 years we have been allowing babies to be killed at virtually any time for any reason (“abortion on demand and without apology”). We need a candidate with wisdom and revelation who can look at the abortion industry in the face, who can look at the money and the fear of more economic crisis in the face and say, “over my dead body will we continue killing the unborn.”

If we ask questions and don’t get straight answers, there may be a problem. When people are solidly pro-life, it’s a very easy question to answer, no matter the level of office.

President Obama made headlines as he was running in 2008 by telling Pastor Rick Warren that deciding when life begins was not “above my pay grade.” That told me he was not my president.

It’s in everyone’s pay grade to end abortion because we were all given the chance to live. Listen carefully to the candidates. This isn’t time to take a chance because we like an economic plan or the guy has charisma, it’s the time to stand for LIFE. How many more babies have to die in the name of some choice before we have the backbone to get over ourselves and our taxes and our comfort to fight unceasingly for their lives? We have a chance in this election. Let’s not blow it.