In trying to understand this, if it’s accurate, keep in mind Nixon spoke in short clips he didn’t always elaborate. Obviously he doesn’t mean forced abortion to get rid of mixed race kids. He’s talking about a woman who wants an abortion because she gets pregnant with a man of a different race and this will bring embarrassment to her, maybe if she’s married. If she’s single it’s a more racist comment I guess because he is assuming a white woman won’t want to have a black baby.
That’s about the best I can do with it. Also a lot of people aren’t old enough to realize that even in the 1960’s a mixed race couple was a shocking thing in most places. People don’t know that Muhammad Ali was one of the biggest opponents of mixed race marriage.
So in the context of the times, Nixon was referring to any “embarrassing” pregnancy.
Well he’s right. Most white women don’t want to have a baby with a black guy. Look at the marriage stats.
That’s why I also said that back in his day particularly, the segregationist ideas ran high on both sides. Blacks were not overjoyed at mixed race kids either. Not many races were, they all thought it diluted their own race and that the kid wouldn’t be wanted by either of the parents’ ethnic groups.