DISQUS

The Moderate Voice: Women, Abortion, Helen Thomas and Richard Nixon

  • facebook-1562520005 · 5 months ago
    As a member of the Republican Majority for Choice I am upset to see that Nixon could say these things. He was right in saying that there are times even abortions are necessary, but when they are necessary is up to a woman and her family. There is so much more to choice.
  • crowepps · 5 months ago
    Nixon's statements seem to me to go beyond Choice and lean towards compulsion - abortions being required when there's 'a black and a white'.
  • aews · 5 months ago
    Nixon must have evolved in the ensuing years. When I started Republicans for Choice in 1990 Nixon not only was one of the first to contribute but asked if I wanted him to ask either of his daughters to join our Board. I told him that they had been through so much that I wouldn't ask them to once again step into the line of fire...so to speak. We knew this fight was going to be long and hard. To his dying day in 1994 he supported our efforts to get the GOP to return to its roots of getting government out of our lives and our bedrooms!
  • Bronwyn · 5 months ago
    Choice assumes authority. You assume that you have the legitimate right to order the death of your unborn child. The baby has no choice. The mother has no authority to kill her child. There is an end to authority and this is it. "Choice" is not a human right but a destruction of an innocent life, a doctrine that justifies murder while dressing it up as wholesome, even holy. What NIxon had to say about it is beside the point. His cataclysmic fall was the judgment on his hubris and his self-congratulatory prejudices.