[tpaine]

---- we should be able to live in a community (an organic political construct) that respects a 'right to life' thus giving the meaning to the word 'right.'

You can prohibit early term abortion. --- But not in this country, not under our constitutional rules of law.

Rightwing libertarianism is a theory on self-government based on the nature of man securing and maintaiing his liberties within his community rather that an appeal to abstract rights to be recognized by all of man kind.

Our constitution recognises that community standards can be the basis for reasonable regulatory laws, providing that such laws do not violate our basic individual human rights, as outlined in our BOR's.
Get it?

[JohnGalt]

"individual human rights, as outlined in our BOR's.
Get it?"


But you (or really the courts) are the one determing when these 'rights' begin so they have no meaning. Even worse, you believe that the state has a right to determine what a local community deems as rights--which is not mentioned or implied in the Consitution. The Bill of Rights is only a list of things the federalis cannot do.

Since you believe the state should be ideally, the Consitution, you believe in a large state since it would take a large state in order to ensure these rights in every nook and cranny. As a rightwing libertarian, I look at large states as inherently corrupt.

Look how many so-called 'libertarians' (see thoughtomator) claim they believe in a right to life but have no problem with the state dropping 'bunker-busters' on civilians.

[traditionalist]

You can prohibit early term abortion. --- But not in this country, not under our constitutional rules of law.

Why is it, then, that states had been doing this since the begining of the Republic until 1973? Was there an amendment passed in 1973 that I am not aware of?