Most of you know my attitude toward abortion. Due to a difficult pregnancy my wife was told to abort her second pregnancy. After consulting with me, she refused and subsequently our second son was born without a defect. However, I've been thinking about the other side and the more I thought about it, the more I understood it. It is the Ayn Rand perspective. First of all, I noticed that the anti-abortion advocates rarely acknowledge the woman who does not want to be pregnant. There are a multitude of reasons for this and I don't think I need to list them all. By the omission of the woman's perspective, she is being treated as a non-person, non citizen, not worthy of mention. By making abortion illegal, the woman is stripped of her free will and she is subjugated into carrying out the dictates of the state. It posits that a woman must suffer an unwanted pregnancy, possibly a painful childbirth, and the possibility of legal battles, and paying child support. But worst of all, particularly from an Objectivist standpoint is giving the government power over the woman's uterus. The government is constantly seeking ways to exercise more power over its citizens and controlling a woman's reproduction forces her to submit to the edicts of the government and the exertion of her full rights as an American.