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To: contemplator
As someone who agrees with the underlying Libertarian philosophy I think they got most of it right with a few exceptions. Abortion is one such issue. Where they view it as government intruding in private lives, I view it strictly as one of civil liberties. My particular twist on it is that the liberties being trampled are that of the unborn child and as such should be prohibited.

I agree and for me, its a no compromise issue. If a woman wants the right to determine what happens to her body then she also has the right and responsibility of preventing the pregnancy in the first place. She has the right to choose which form of about 12 different types of birth control she wants to use. She doesn't have the right to murder an unborn baby.

Yes, there are a few instances and they ARE few, where rape, incest and the life of the mother are the issuse and these can be taken into account. The idea is that abortions should be extremely rare. jmo

35 posted on 02/10/2009 11:39:38 AM PST by Netizen
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To: Netizen
Libertarians would take the money out of abortion which would drastically reduce abortions overnight. That means zero taxpayer dollars going to Planned Parenthood.

Look, in this day and age, there's not going to be a Constitutional Amendment banning abortion or even Roe vs Wade overturned. Of course, that doesn't mean it should stop but for now the pro-life movement should do is seize the pro-choice argument by attacking abortion from the economic aspect of it.

54 posted on 02/10/2009 6:47:54 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (The Libertarian and Constitution Parties should merge into one)
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