I believe that life begins at conception. And abortion under no circumstances.... No, it comes down to it's not the government's role or anybody else's role to make that decision. Secondly, if you look at the statistical incidents, you're not talking about that big a number. So what I'm saying is it ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make. Not me as president, not some politician, not a bureaucrat. It gets down to that family. And whatever they decide, they decide. I shouldn't have to tell them what decision to make for such a sensitive issue.... The government shouldn't be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to social decisions that they need to make.

Piers Morgan Tonight, 19 November 2011, quoted in Benen, Steve (20 October 2011), "The pro-life candidate who's pro-choice", Political Animal (Washington Monthly), retrieved on 2011-10-23