“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape.”

Tape 407, Conversation No. 407-18, 32:08 http://nixon.archives.gov/forresearchers/find/tapes/tape407/407-018.mp3
On Nixon Tapes, Ambivalence Over Abortion, Not Watergate http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/us/politics/24nixon.html by Charlie Savage, The New York Times, June 23 2009, retrieved June 23 2009
1970s, Tape transcripts (1973)

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