Be aware of some institutional history:
1. Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League -- which later became Planned Parenthood.
2. Besides being more-or-less a libertine who favored abortion as a means of avoiding the consequences of sexual activity, Sanger was also a big fan of eugenics .
3. Thus, Sanger was especially enthusiastic about promoting abortion among the blacks -- whom she considered "genetically unfit to breed".
Accordingly, from the outset, Planned Parenthood served as, first, a vendor of social convenience for well-off white women and, second, as an instrument of social intervention designed to minimize the black population.
Certainly, members of Planned Parenthood would claim that this no longer describes their mission. But they cannot argue what they were to begin with.
Thank you for the info, but I am quite aware of Margaret Sanger and who/what she was.
It doesn’t change my opinion that what Nixon uttered somehow tarnishes abortion with racism. Abortion tarnishes itself simply being what it is, it didn’t needed any help from Nixon, nor does his opinion make it a racist institution which is what this discussion is about.