By Roark on 06-12-09
Deschamps is a poor choice. While the rest of the GOP across the USA is purging their “Deschamps” from the party, the Montana GOP is committing insanity by electing a moderate, aka pragmatist, who is no real defender of individual rights, personal responsibility, liberty, and capitalism. Deschamps election will almost certainly guarantee Democrat victories in the upcoming years. WHY would anyone with half a brain stand behind a diet-Democrat when they can have the real thing in the DNC. Deschamps is a cowardly choice from a spineless MTGOP.
By Kalispell Native on 06-13-09
@ Roark (Described as a rapist in Rand’s novel) Your heroine’s words:
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—“The Age of Mediocrity,” The Objectivist Forum, 1981
One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living: the right of young people to set the course of their own lives.
Ayn Rand, “A Last Survey — Part I”, The Ayn Rand Letter Vol. IV, No. 2, 1975.
The task of raising a child is a tremendous, lifelong responsibility, which no one should undertake unwittingly or unwillingly. Procreation is not a duty: human beings are not stock-farm animals. For conscientious persons, an unwanted pregnancy is a disaster; to oppose its termination is to advocate sacrifice, not for the sake of anyone’s benefit, but for the sake of misery qua misery, for the sake of forbidding happiness and fulfillment to living human beings.
“A Last Survey,” The Ayn Rand Letter, IV, 2, 3.
The question of abortion involves much more than the termination of a pregnancy: it is a question of the entire life of the parents. As I have said before, parenthood is an enormous responsibility; it is an impossible responsibility for young people who are ambitious and struggling, but poor…For such young people, pregnancy is a death sentence: parenthood would force them to give up their future, and condemn them to a life of hopeless drudgery, of slavery to a child’s physical and financial needs. The situation of an unwed mother, abandoned by her lover, is even worse.
—The Age of Mediocrity,” The Objectivist Forum, June 1981, 3.
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