Biff_Poindexter
Diamond Member
Nixon: Interracial 'Mating' A Reason For Abortions
Sammy Davis Jr.'s famous and rapturous 1972 hug of President Richard Nixon apparently didn't do much to change the 37th president's mind on a few issues.
www.npr.org
"FORMER US President Richard Nixon believed it was "necessary" to abort mixed-race babies, newly released tapes have disclosed. Commenting privately on the 1973 Supreme Court ruling Roe vs Wade, which decriminalised abortion in America, the then-president said "I know there are times when abortions are necessary" he tells an aide. "I know that when you have a black and a white, or a rape, you know what I mean -- there are times." Mr. Nixon was widely believed at the time to be privately opposed to abortion rights, although he had declined to take a public stance on the issue. On the tapes, there are also several examples of Mr. Nixon's paranoia about political enemies and his suspicion of Jews."
Believing abortion should be permitted in cases the child is a product of interracial mating wasn't some fringe belief among Conservatives back in the Nixon days (1970's) -- seeing as tho it wasn't but a few years that Conservatives lost their fight to ban interracial marriage...and universities like Falwell's Liberty University and Bob Jones University had some really strong opinions about being against interracial dating...in fact, they were against desegregation, period.....in fact, as I have said before -- that is how evangelicals latched onto the "Pro-Life movement" -- they needed something to rally behind when being blatantly racist was no longer feasible....
So, it brings me to ask.....since many of these proposed bills in mainly Conservative states are against abortions in case of rape, incest and in some instances, even against abortion if it endangers the life of the mother -- as one Senator opined about -- would Conservatives also abandon their belief that abortion should be permitted in case of interracial mating -- like they so recently believed so strongly....keep in mind, Bob Jones University has only allowed interracial dating on campus post the year 2000.....