Rand on Abortion (and on the side of evil as usual)

“An embryo has no rights,” declared Ayn Rand, as quoted by William Luse, responding to To a Gas Chamber, Go!. She continues:

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?”

Luse offers two other comments of hers he notes should be of interest to conservatives:

“Faith, as such, is extremely detrimental to human life: it is the negation of reason . . . . To embrace existence is to reject all notions of the supernatural and the mystical, including God.”

And

“In regard to the moral aspects of birth control, the primary right involved is not the ‘right’ of an unborn child, nor of the family, nor of society, nor of God. The primary right is . . . the right of man and woman to their own life and happiness — the right not to be regarded as the means to any end.”

He concludes: “I don’t know if her program would require dictatorship, but she’d have made a good replacement for Kathleen Sebelius.”