The only people with "weird ideas" about abortion are conservatives.
Many of whom are on this forum with dollar signs for some reason...

Nothing in this wall of text has ANYTHING to do with why abortion should or should not be legal.
This is the political illiteracy I expect from conservatives, not in an Objectivist forum.

To determine whether something should be legal or not, we ask if rights are being violated or not?

Since the unborn don't have any rights and since being carried to term is no more a right than free healthcare, abortion should be perfectly legal.

That's all there really is to it, from an Objectivist point of view.

Abortion is not "murder" of anyone, innocent or otherwise.
Facts don't care about your feelings.

I think he's doing pretty well considering how outnumbered he is by conservative, religious leftists, on what is supposed to be an Objectivist forum.

It's called palliative care.

No one is putting words in your mouth.
Why is someone like you on what is supposed to be an Objectivist forum?
There are plenty of places on the internet for politically illiterate, religious leftists, such as yourself and other conservatives.
Why on earth are you here?

What clarification do you need?
It's in your own quote, "And it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus that’s non-viable."
He is clearly talking about palliative care for non-viable newborns.

No one has ever talked about "killing babies,
openly or otherwise.
The governors words were deliberately misreported, by religious leftists, of today's vile conservative movement, in order to help advance their agenda of reducing half the adult population to the level of cattle.
These anti-abortionists are the same types of people that support mindless collectivism and fascism and behead little girls because they attend school.

You don't need to "reevaluate your faith" you need to get a better understanding of this issue, realize how back-ass-wards you have everything, and then learn the Objectivist position on it.

Yes, birth is required to have rights.
It's really not complicated.

It's not "weird" it's perfectly logical.
Murdering someone is a rights violation and made all the worse, if that someone was pregnant. In these cases a double murder charge may be sought.
Having an abortion, on the other hand, violates no rights and so should be perfectly legal.
It's very straight forward.

Yes, it been hard to quantify the full evil of those who want to ban abortion and turn half the population into cattle.
Anti-abortionists are as much a threat to all our freedoms as any socialist and must be fought by Objectivists just as hard.

Other way around.
Being carried to term, is no more a right than health insurance.
Those who want to ban abortion, are basically confused versions of Bernie Sanders.

So does not paying for peoples healthcare.
What are you suggesting we do?

No he didn't.
He was talking about palliative care for terminal newborns.

A poor person is "capable of sustaining it's own life."
Does that mean we should be forced to do things for them?

The anti-abortion arguments of conservatives, are the same as the arguments of socialists.

Abortion is a perfectly legitimate right.
Those who want to ban abortion and force people to carry to term, are no different to those who want to force people to pay for healthcare of others.
In this way, among many others, conservatives are not an alternative to progressives.
Just religious and more confused version of them.

A trillion arbitrary decrees denying the rights of the individual are still arbitrary and contrary to what this forum is supposed to be for.

Me dino thinks Mein Kampf is an interesting book.
It doesn't mean I'm a Nazi. Heck I think The Communist Manifesto is interesting reading too.
So is Dante's The Divine Comedy and Shakespeare's A Summer's Night Dream.

The only women me dino demeaned is a woman who would tell a doctor to kill her baby AFTER it was born.
Love to put words in my mouth, don't you?

Yes, saying the the baby would be kept comfortable while discussing its whatever is not the same as saying "kill babies" when it is so elephant in the room obvious that is what is being discussed.

What that idiot governor of Virginia said.

You can't tell anything to a newborn either.

Tra la la.

So is disagreeing with you.

So a baby born a month early obtains human rights while a "fetus" nine months in the womb has no human rights unless mommy is murdered.
Interesting.