"There are times when abortion is necessary. I know that. ...when you have a black and a white. Or rape."
— Richard Nixon
More Ze being Frank.
...but Nixon said something that most religious conservatives don't cop to today, that their real concern about abortion is not for the life of an undifferentiated cluster of blastocyst cells, but for what they fear to be inconsequential promiscuity.
Rapture-voters could solve the problem of abortion by making it unnecessary, by pushing for family-friendly wages, proportional tax policy, and the right to a healthy life... not just life... but universal, affordable healthcare, the trop of Obama's philosophy, which hopes to make abortion unnecessary, not illegal.
They would stop ranting about abortion and do something to make life a viable option, an exciting choice, instead of impossible. They would literally argue to make raising babies affordable.
Back to promiscuity. That's an argument I heard a lot as a kid, clatter about the rampant promiscuity unleashed by the Supreme Court's ruling on Roe v Wade, but that inarguably nosy-sounding noise was soon supplanted by the pro-life stand, after the roving ban of sex police went out of fashion in America.
At the Atlantic Free Press, Jayne Stall points out that the same release of Nixon tapes frees a tidbit between Nixon and Republican Party National Committee chair, George H.W. Bush, discussing the merit of picking a beautiful woman to run for office.
Nixon says, "Understand, I don't do it because I'm for women, but I'm doing it because I think maybe a woman might win someplace where a man might not."
Charmed from the start.
Read More about Nixon's strange appeal to to women.
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