Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster "permissiveness," and said that "it breaks the family." But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases " like interracial pregnancies, he said.
"There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white," he told an aide, before adding, "Or a rape."
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expectedly, there are always ignorant people who will judge the past against the standards of today.
Even this 'piece of work' never envisioned the abomination of 1.5 million abortions annually, and it's not even
close to being statistically relevant in terms of interracial conceptions or rape. He was, however, on the right
track with his permissiveness observation.
Nixon on abortion sometomes it's necessary
