[traditionalist]

Thus a practical working explanation for the right to life would be the right for the community to prohibit an abortionist from selling his wares in town.

By that same argument, the community could prohibit a drug dealer from selling his wares in town, which is fine by me, but somehow I think a libertarian would reject this conclusion.

BTW, what if the abortionist is conducting abortions on his own property which is close to the community?

[JohnGalt]

"libertarian would reject this conclusion."

A left libertarian would, but not me...though communities that tend to spend a lot on preventing commerce of certain substances tend to be corrupt--see any town in Kentucky that is still 'dry.'

I would probably just choose not to live there or vote with my feet.

If an abortionist was preforming captial crimes on his own property I would suggest that the warrant system seems pretty sound. Arrest him and put him on a trial before his peers; then the abortionist can talk about 'rights' till he is blue in the face, all the way to the gallows. ;)