Well, I would say that the LP’s platform position on abortion is basically a “dodge the issue” position.
While I agree that their position is flawed, I would not say it is “defending evil”. I would say that it is an ideological position that ignores the reality of death and abortion, and chooses individual liberty over law.
I would compare it to the flawed ideology of anarchism, in that society cannot exist without law, just as one’s individual liberty ends when it infringes upon another.
I hope my analogy makes sense to you, becasue it almost does to me...lmao
~SC
Your analogy is not bad, but I disagree.
In 1860 our country split, largely because a large minority was upset about another large minority referring to their peculiar institution as “evil.” They believed any potential government intrusion on their right to hold other men in slavery was illegitimate, a perfectly libertarian position if one ignores the human rights of the slaves.
That is exactly the pro-life or pro-abortion libertarian position. It ignores any possibility of there being a moral issue involved with abortion and therefore declares it to be by definition morally neutral.
To increasing numbers of people in 1860 the position that slavery was morally neutral was not logically defensible. Quite slowly it seems more people are realizing the same is true of abortion.
Pronouncing a practice to be morally neutral does not make it so.