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I am not aware of a study that incorporates the idea that there is a life force other than just the chemical reactions and electrical discharges sustaining life and enabling reason. I think there is more to life that just a biological function. What this is (religion likes to refer to it as a soul) is not understood. When does this life force enter the new being? I have no idea.
Interesting that under the law if a woman wants the child and is murdered then it is two counts of murder. If the woman does not want the child it is okay to kill it. No discussion that this is another person not just a collection of cells.
Difficult questions. Since the fetus resists the dismemberment and destruction is it self aware?
I liked her ability to reason but had trouble with her personality, in particular with her drug usage. I could not see how she would be able to have nearly cultish followers in the 'collective'.
Most of the answers to such questions here seem to be from those who were forced to believe that they are dependent for a god making them who they are rather than being in charge of creating their own selves as they mature after birth.
Having said that, she was also an advocate of science. The further that science has progressed from 1973 the more that we have learned about early developing life.
Ayn's advocacy of "tabula rasa" as how babies come into this world is being proven wrong scientifically.
In addition, many women who have had abortions have faced the emotional turmoil of the positives and negatives of such decisions and have had second thoughts about their actions. Sometimes hindsight is 20-20. Don't ignore those who have regrets. They have much to teach.
My suggestion is:
1) Follow the science when making new laws.
2) Tell her the truth and then let her decide.
It's ultimately up to the woman.
Adrenochrome for the deletes included. Waiting till just before birth provides a bigger stack of green for the murderers who do not provide alternate options to the (in many cases scared )mothers.
My BW nannied for a boy with Downs from 1yr old to 8 . He is an absolute Joy. That has been my experience with everyone of those loving humans that I have met. Now if a parent was considering aborting a leftist , I could understand the termination.
But to your comment - one could decide to abort an IVF pregnancy if the baby has an abnormality that the parents cannot deal with. For example: Down's syndrome. Some people would voluntarily choose to end a Down's Syndrome pregnancy, even if it were achieved by IVF.
While I am very much against abortion, that wasn't actually what I was arguing, but whether any man had a right to have an opinion about abortion. He does.
BUT the abortion issue is complicated as I posted elsewhere. Until we prosecute EVERY miscarriage as manslaughter, we are NOT on solid ground illegalizing it. Nature does NOT have a 100% success rate after conception. So, IMHO, that can NEVER be the line in the sand.
On the other hand, once the baby is truly viable outside the womb, we have issues. And my personal favorite is/was brainwave activity that we can easily confirm means we have an individual. (But I am ALL About Arguing out where I will learn and move. It took me 30yrs to get to that point).
Regarding Big businesses my take is that with lobbying and large cash donations from big business , regulations are used as a weapons to be used to stifle competition and hurt small business ability to exist. For a few decades at least the US has become fascist. Big business partnering with the Con-gress has enabled the
ceo’s To make absolute fortunes on the back of the laborers. Many CEOs had nothing to do with starting the co.s that they run and now more than ever they partner with Government to the detriment of the citizens. It’s often a good old boy network attempting to rip off the shareholders and exploit the work force. I think all here respect any whale who built a business and thrived. Regarding the abortion issue ,I was surprised that Ayn Rand did not put a bit more responsibility to the pregnancy on the copulaters.
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