Comments on: Women, Abortion, Helen Thomas and Richard Nixon

By: Bronwyn

Bronwyn — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:39:04 +0000

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.

By: aews

aews — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:25:35 +0000

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!

By: crowepps

crowepps — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:04:00 +0000

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'.

By: facebook-1562520005

facebook-1562520005 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:36:46 +0000

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.