another abortion exception

The wonderful thing about the technological advances of the last 100 years or so is that the private words of our former presidents can be preserved for posterity. Or for the renewed humiliation of the American public decades after these men have left office. Of course, Nixon (with his paranoid penchant for recording his own criminal dealings) probably takes the cake in terms of providing a virtually unlimited amount of increasingly embarrassing insights into his private thoughts. The latest, of course, emerge from 150 hours of newly released Oval Office tapes in which our 37th presidents discusses his ambivalent feelings about Roe v. Wade:

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

Can't wait for the release of the George W. Bush White House text messages.