Rand responds...
If any of you are confused or taken in by the argument that the cells of an embryo are living human cells, remember that so are all the cells of your body, including the cells of your skin, your tonsils, or your ruptured appendix--and that cutting them is murder, according to the notions of that proposed law. Remember also that a potentiality is not the equivalent of an actuality--and that a human being's life begins at birth.
The question of abortion involves much more than the termination of a pregnancy: it is a question of the entire life of the parents. AS I have said before, parenthood is an enormous responsibility; it is an
impossible responsibility for young people who are ambitious and struggling, but poor; particularly if they are intelligent and conscientious enough not to abandon their child on a doorstep nor to surrender it to adoption. For such young people, pregnancy is a death sentence: parenthood would force them to give up their future, and condemn them to a life of hopeless drdgery, of slavery to a child's physical and financial needs. The situation of an unwed mother, abandoned by her lover is even worse.
I cannot quite imagine the state of mind of a person who would wish to condemn a fellow human being to such a horror. I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object. Judging by the degree of those women's intencity, I would say that it is an issue of self-esteem and that their fear is metaphysical. Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against value that brings happiness to human life. In compliance with the dishonesty that dominates today's intellectual field, they call themselves "pro-life."
By that right does anyone claim the power to dispose of the lives of others and to dictate their personal choices?
A proper, philosophically valid definition of man as " arational animal," would not permit anyone to ascribe the status of "person" to a few human cells. *Ayn Rand*
The women & men who claim to be "pro-life", are murderers of human dignity, when a woman is the owner of her own body, therefore owner of her own choices. The anti-abortionists are giving rights above the life of the woman whom is living, totally trampling the womann's right to choose what happens to her life, and her body.
*Godless*
If any of you are confused or taken in by the argument that the cells of an embryo are living human cells, remember that so are all the cells of your body, including the cells of your skin, your tonsils, or your ruptured appendix--and that cutting them is murder, according to the notions of that proposed law. Remember also that a potentiality is not the equivalent of an actuality--and that a human being's life begins at birth.
The question of abortion involves much more than the termination of a pregnancy: it is a question of the entire life of the parents. AS I have said before, parenthood is an enormous responsibility; it is an
impossible responsibility for young people who are ambitious and struggling, but poor; particularly if they are intelligent and conscientious enough not to abandon their child on a doorstep nor to surrender it to adoption. For such young people, pregnancy is a death sentence: parenthood would force them to give up their future, and condemn them to a life of hopeless drdgery, of slavery to a child's physical and financial needs. The situation of an unwed mother, abandoned by her lover is even worse.
I cannot quite imagine the state of mind of a person who would wish to condemn a fellow human being to such a horror. I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object. Judging by the degree of those women's intencity, I would say that it is an issue of self-esteem and that their fear is metaphysical. Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against value that brings happiness to human life. In compliance with the dishonesty that dominates today's intellectual field, they call themselves "pro-life."
By that right does anyone claim the power to dispose of the lives of others and to dictate their personal choices?
A proper, philosophically valid definition of man as " arational animal," would not permit anyone to ascribe the status of "person" to a few human cells. *Ayn Rand*
The women & men who claim to be "pro-life", are murderers of human dignity, when a woman is the owner of her own body, therefore owner of her own choices. The anti-abortionists are giving rights above the life of the woman whom is living, totally trampling the womann's right to choose what happens to her life, and her body.
*Godless*