Posted June 23, 2009 at 7:37 PM

Issues: Ethics

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/us/politics/24nixon.html?_r=2

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, such as interracial pregnancies.“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.”Nine months later, after Nixon precipitated the