Quote:May I ask why you, as a libertarian, feel like a woman shouldn't have the right to terminate her prenatal pregnancy?

 

In my case it's the simple belief that our inalienable rights are extended, as the Founding Fathers wrote, to ourselves and our progeny. As such, children in uetero are entitled and deserving of the right to life, regardless of the circumstances of their conception. The argument has always been about whose rights do we exert when the woman wants to terminate her pregnancy, and as a result the child has been renamed and de-humanized to the point that many consider them to be without personhood until they are born (for some even that isn't sufficient.). Anyone who is honest knows that an abortion is the killing of a human life, but either they change to terms to assuage the conscience or, like Kermit Gosnell and the rest of the rabidly pro-abortion left, they simply don't care. Government's role is centrally about protecting the rights of individuals, therefore unborn children fall under that umbrella of protection. Of course this view is informed by cultural and religious beliefs too, so they are incompatible with many of the other views that exist. One of the great and lasting divides in this country and I certainly don't have the answers. Except, you know, it's pretty easy to get and use contraception in this country. That might be a great start, thought certainly not complete, to eliminating the need for abortion.

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