LIVE LECTURE: Dr. Andrew Bernstein lectures on **ABORTION**

Join us for Andrew Bernstein's lecture entitled, "Philosophic Basis of a Woman's Right to Abortion"

Location: University of Texas, Room: Calhoun 100
Time: 7:15 pm

Join us for an invigorating perspective on a woman's right to choose abortion, presented by Dr. Andrew Bernstein.

This talk is a defense – on philosophical grounds – of the right to abortion. To validate this right requires a rational theory of rights, one grounded in fact, not faith or feeling. In establishing the basis of this right, Dr. Bernstein also demonstrates that anti-abortionists have no rational basis for using the phrase “right to life.”

Dr. Bernstein presents the scientific arguments used by anti-abortionists, then demonstrates the errors in those arguments: failure to recognize the biological nature of the fetus; equivocation on key terms; and obliteration of the distinction between actual and potential.

Dr. Bernstein grounds his view of rights in an ethics of rational egoism and contrasts it with the theory of self-sacrifice espoused by anti-abortionists.

Both political conservatives and liberals deny the principle of individual rights and egoist ethics on which rights depend. Only Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism validates both rights and egoism, thereby providing the only valid philosophical basis of a woman’s right to abortion.

*At this point we are not scheduling a live stream viewing of this event. If you are able to temporarily donate equipment and/or a live stream channel to make this possible, please send the host, Brittney Rivera, a message.

**This lecture is made possible by the Ayn Rand Institute

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