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

— Richard Nixon Tape transcripts (1973)

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Notes from Wikiquote

On Nixon Tapes, Ambivalence Over Abortion, Not Watergate by Charlie Savage, The New York Times (June 23, 2009).

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