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Dismantling Roe vs Wade and a Women’s Right to Abortion

Dismantling Roe vs Wade and a Women’s Right to Abortion

https://youtu.be/esz5RCSVuqc "If Samuel Alito’s leaked first draft of a potential majority decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is a reliable indication, the Supreme Court will overturn (and may have already done so by the time of the conference)...

The Death of Abortion Rights in America: A Postmortem

The Death of Abortion Rights in America: A Postmortem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLMf6f1kJfU From the Ayn Rand Institute: In Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court overturned the 50 year precedent, Roe v Wade, allowing for immediate state level bans on abortion. What philosophical ideas led...

Ben Bayer: Abortion and Objectivism

Ben Bayer: Abortion and Objectivism

https://twitter.com/BenjaminBayer/status/1522051730611089408 This is an excellent tweet thread by philosopher Ben Bayer at the Ayn Rand Institute: You may wonder why I decided to write a lot about abortion. As a man the issue doesn't affect me in a directly personal...

A Picture is Not an Argument

A Picture is Not an Argument

From The Atlantic: The argument for abortion, if made honestly, requires many words: It must evoke the recent past, the dire consequences to women of making a very simple medical procedure illegal. The argument against it doesn’t take even a single word. The argument...

Bernstein: How Anti-Abortion “Pro-Lifers” Are Anti-Life

Bernstein: How Anti-Abortion “Pro-Lifers” Are Anti-Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ1e1w10U9o The Aporia Institute has an enlightening interview with Andrew Bernstein. Andrew Bernstein demonstrates the problems with the "pro-life" arguments and elaborates on the proper way to view abortion. This includes a proper...

Ben Bayer: Is Abortion Immoral?

Ben Bayer: Is Abortion Immoral?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5w49l30HA8 Ben Bayer of the Ayn Rand Institute on abortion.From the video description: "Abortion is an important issue consistently in the public discourse. What makes it so persistent? Should there be any legal limit on abortion? Much...

Video: Ayn Rand On Self Esteem and Abortion

Contrary to conservatives, Ayn Rand supported the right to abortion; contrary to liberals, she opposed environmentalism; and contrary to libertarians (and others), she upheld a firm, assertive foreign policy.What unites...

Three Points on Abortion

Three Points on Abortion

Ayn Rand makes three important points on abortion in her essay "The Age of Mediocrity", published in The Objectivist Forum June 1981. 1. The cells of an embryo are human cells but not a human being: If any among you are confused or taken in by the argument that the...

“The anti-abortion movement isn’t pro-life. Abortion is.”

“The anti-abortion movement isn’t pro-life. Abortion is.”

Danielle Campoamor on Why supporting abortion is a pro-life position (Opinion) - CNN: Worldwide, an estimated 68,000 women die of unsafe abortions each year, according to an obstetrics and gynecology study, and 5 million will suffer long-term health complications if...

Of Living Death

Of Living Death

"In this lecture examining the 1968 papal encyclical Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life), Ayn Rand discusses the meaning of the Catholic Church’s admonition against the use of contraception and the view of sex that it implies. She contrasts this religious perspective on sex...

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