Libertarians get a lot right but in the matter of abortion, they get everything wrong. They say that every being has the right to live, but they also say that no human has the right to remain inside another human. They contradict themselves here. If every human being has the right to live, and the fetus can only live inside the mother it doesn't matter what the mother thinks it cannot be taken out of her because the fetus would die. The fetus has no choice about being inside the mother. If a person is another person's property and somehow becomes injured so badly that if he is moved he dies, we would not immediately say he has no right to be on the property and move him off, thus killing him. We would try to save his life no matter what the property owner thinks. Indeed, if the property owner insisted that he should be moved off his property he would likely be condemned.
Good job, Andrew!
ReplyDeleteGood reasoning.
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