DANG girl! And you say you didn't have a solid science grounding in school! I do believe you could have mastered Mendelian genetics if only you had been permitted to take advanced courses...:):):)...
But opposing terminations on the grounds of who the foetus may become as opposed to what it currently is is a favoured tactic of the pro-life, mamacita.
He may have aborted Barack Obama, but not the Barack Obama he is now.
I can't believe he actually said that, though. Can you give me a source? It sounds unbelievable.
Hi Katie, the info was released by the Nixon Library this week. I will try to find the article I read to give you the exact info but I think it was more tapes from him. You weren't born when Watergate happened, but Nixon was always taping himself.
At that time katie, Nixon's view would have been held by a great many people. There would have been a great social stigma attached to a white woman with a black baby, similar to a woman today who had a baby by her brother.
During Nixon's administration there was still a sitting justice on the Supreme Court, John Harlan, who had been a director of the Pioneer Fund, a foundation that funds research into racial differences.
The Pioneer Fund had interests similar to those of Planned Parenthood. During that time period the legalized abortion debate came about due to lobbying by Planned Parenthood, primarily, who needed a new weapon to fight overpopulation. Higher courts had begun to rule against forced sterilization which had formerly been its most powerful weapon. In the seventies forced sterilization was phased out as abortion was legalized. Forced sterilization is now being seen, once again, in a more favorable light in academia.
Yes, that's right about Nixon's views being mainstream.
It's easy to forget how much attitutes have changed in the last 40-50 years. Back in the 60s my mother believed, for example, that black people ate pet food. She was passionately against mixed marriages, feeling that it wasn't fair on the "half castes" produced by the union.
I don't think these views were particularly uncommon. And Nixon was one generation older, so the idea that mixed race foetuses should be aborted would not have been shocking.
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I just figured out that he would have aborted Obama.
DANG girl! And you say you didn't have a solid science grounding in school! I do believe you could have mastered Mendelian genetics if only you had been permitted to take advanced courses...:):):)...
I found this odd. I thought Nixon worked to end segregation in schools, but of course desegregated schools are quite different to miscegenation.
But opposing terminations on the grounds of who the foetus may become as opposed to what it currently is is a favoured tactic of the pro-life, mamacita.
He may have aborted Barack Obama, but not the Barack Obama he is now.
I can't believe he actually said that, though. Can you give me a source? It sounds unbelievable.
Hi Katie, the info was released by the Nixon Library this week. I will try to find the article I read to give you the exact info but I think it was more tapes from him. You weren't born when Watergate happened, but Nixon was always taping himself.
At that time katie, Nixon's view would have been held by a great many people. There would have been a great social stigma attached to a white woman with a black baby, similar to a woman today who had a baby by her brother.
During Nixon's administration there was still a sitting justice on the Supreme Court, John Harlan, who had been a director of the Pioneer Fund, a foundation that funds research into racial differences.
The Pioneer Fund had interests similar to those of Planned Parenthood. During that time period the legalized abortion debate came about due to lobbying by Planned Parenthood, primarily, who needed a new weapon to fight overpopulation. Higher courts had begun to rule against forced sterilization which had formerly been its most powerful weapon. In the seventies forced sterilization was phased out as abortion was legalized. Forced sterilization is now being seen, once again, in a more favorable light in academia.
Yes, that's right about Nixon's views being mainstream.
It's easy to forget how much attitutes have changed in the last 40-50 years. Back in the 60s my mother believed, for example, that black people ate pet food. She was passionately against mixed marriages, feeling that it wasn't fair on the "half castes" produced by the union.
I don't think these views were particularly uncommon. And Nixon was one generation older, so the idea that mixed race foetuses should be aborted would not have been shocking.
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