Abortion

Abortion is the removal of a fetus from the body of a pregnant woman with the purpose of killing the fetus.

Many conservatives believe that abortion is murder because the right to life begins at conception with the creation of a soul. The reality is that rights only apply to beings capable of volitional thought. Making abortion illegal is a violation of a woman's rights to her own body. The so-called "pro-life" position is actually anti-life, since it advocates the violation of an individuals right to life by the state.

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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...Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life. In compliance with the dishonesty that dominates today's intellectual field, they call themselves 'pro-life.'

-Ayn Rand

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Abortion is Pro Life