- Rand claims that a child cannot acquire rights until it is born, which means that the fetus has no rights, not even in very late stages of pregnancy.
- Many conservatives oppose abortion in the name of “personal responsibility,” but this is a sham.
- Arguably, the law that only recently passed in New York legalizing all abortion after 24 weeks is the bill Rand would have supported.
- Rand’s views on abortion are not only fundamentally at odds with religious conservatives, but also radically different from what most Democrats and sundry “liberals” offer to this day.
Dr. Bayer highlights several issues in regards to Ayn Rand's defense of abortion including: