Thursday, July 31, 2008

Anti-Choice is Murder

I added a long post to Swiftspeech based on Bushit' recent rant to outlaw not only abortion, but contraceptives. (Strangely, he made no mention of vasectomies. Never was good at speaking in public.) I particularly resonate with Ayn Rand's quote. Bushit's policies are akin to putting reproductive rights for both men and women back 100 years.

What's next? Will women lose their hard-earned right to vote? I wish I were being facetious, but given the vicious conservativism that characterizes our current political, sociological, and diplomatic blunders, I find myself unsure.
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
Capitalists—Abortion Profile

The capitalist view encompasses positions with which I vehemently disagree, but also provide choice reading on point at this site that answers the: Question: What is the essential political issue concerning abortion?

2 comments:

Messenger said...

Acting as Moderator, I have taken the liberty to boldface the quotation from Ayn Rand. That's a heavy statement, considering the source.

Stella by Starlight said...

NP, messenger. Thank you for doing so. I was astounded when I read that quote.

Hope you're doing well.