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President Richard Nixon said it was 'necessary' to abort mixed-race babies, tapes reveal - Telegraph
I guess this will be a tricky topic for some FYM'rs. However, logically it seems to me that no abortion on demand advocate can condemn Nixon's views on this without being accused of a double standard.
I disagree with Nixon on this, and strongly condemn his racist view that abortion should be available to parents purely on the basis that they didn't like the colour of skin of their offspring. Where does it end? Pretty soon, with scientific advancements, we could have parents who abort their babies because they do not meet a certain IQ level, or whatever.
Confusing, gang? Not as black or white as some paint it, wha'?
Commenting privately on the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling Roe vs Wade, which decriminalised abortion in the US, the then-president said he worried that access to a legal abortion could lead to "permissiveness" because "it breaks the family" but thought them justified in certain cases.
"There are times when an abortion is necessary," he told his aide Chuck Colson. "I know that. When you have a black and a white." Mr Colson offered that rape might also make an abortion legitimate, prompting Mr Nixon to respond: "Or a rape."
I guess this will be a tricky topic for some FYM'rs. However, logically it seems to me that no abortion on demand advocate can condemn Nixon's views on this without being accused of a double standard.
I disagree with Nixon on this, and strongly condemn his racist view that abortion should be available to parents purely on the basis that they didn't like the colour of skin of their offspring. Where does it end? Pretty soon, with scientific advancements, we could have parents who abort their babies because they do not meet a certain IQ level, or whatever.
Confusing, gang? Not as black or white as some paint it, wha'?