1.4 Abortion
Recognizing that abortion is a sensitive issue and that people can hold good-faith views on all sides, we believe that government should be kept out of the matter, leaving the question to each person for their conscientious consideration.
From what I hear, the people who make up the Libertarian party are about evenly split on abortion. The Libertarian party platform has moved from pro-abortion to pro-life a lot over the years.
They are unequivocably wrong on the issue of abortion.
I recently argued with two different women about abortion. They had nothing but “I’m a woman. I have a uterus.” and other emotional drivel as the basis for their arguments.
They also loved to use misandy in their supposed “arguments”.
There is a big difference between “Big L” libertarians, who are mostly drug-addled kooks who don’t like taxes or war, and “small l” libertarians, who are mostly Reagan conservatives but perhaps a little less focused on the social aspect than many are.
However, MANY “small l” libertarians are pro-life.
I am something of a “small l” libertarian myself - the social issues are important, but fiscal issues take precedence. Example, if the government is socially liberal, I can still more or less live a socially conservative life, but if the government is fiscally liberal, I can’t choose not to pay high taxes. One could argue that extreme social liberalism may outlaw religion, private schools, etc., and that’s a valid argument, but it’s still harder to live a fiscally conservative life in a fiscally liberal society than to do so socially except when dealing with extremes.
I think you can be libertarian and anti abortion.
All you have to do is recognize the unborn as a person, and then no one has the right to deprive it of life.