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Civil Liberties

Richard Nixon's Views on Abortion

Jesse Walker | 6.23.2009 11:18 PM

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According to newly released White House tapes, he was generally opposed to the procedure but was willing to make exceptions for rape or … miscegenation.

Elsewhere in Reason: Nixon's views on Archie Bunker.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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