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In reply to the discussion: "Let Women Die Act" [View all]

IcyPeas

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3. and yet his beloved Ayn Rand said this about abortion:
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 05:55 PM
Aug 2012

What was Ayn Rand’s view on abortion?
Excerpt from “Of Living Death” in The Objectivist, October 1968:

An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn).

Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her own body?”


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