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Abortion Rights and the U.S. Election

November 4, 2024

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Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal, Elan Journo and Ben Bayer discuss Ayn Rand’s radical view on abortion rights and the debates over abortion as an election issue.

Among the topics covered:

Why Ayn Rand defended abortion rights as a matter of individual freedom;
How to understand abortion as an election issue after the Dobbs decision;
How to evaluate recent Democratic arguments for abortion rights;
How state ballot initiatives on abortion fail to uphold women’s right to life;
What the future holds for abortion rights as an election and moral issue.

Mentioned in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s entry in the Objectivist Lexicon on “Abortion,” Ayn Rand’s essay “On Living Death,” and Ben Bayer’s essay “Ayn Rand’s Radical Case for Abortion Rights” and book of essays, Why the Right to Abortion is Sacrosanct.

The podcast was recorded on October 21, 2024. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Watch archived podcasts here.

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Reinier Schuur

Reinier Schuur is a junior fellow at ARI who works on health policy.

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