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From the link you posted:

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

Spoken like a woman who has never known the joy and mystery of childbirth. I admire Ayn Rand for her brilliant clarity and her anti-Communist stand. But on this issue she contradicts herself. If man is the highest form of life, then isn't every single aspect and every moment of that life equally precious? The very idea that the human potential embodied in an embryo could be snuffed out by the thoughtless act of a selfish woman should be anathema to Ayn Rand.