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Revision as of 14:50, 12 June 2006
Libertarians for Life was founded in 1976 to show why abortion is a wrong, not a right. Our reasoning is expressly scientific and philosophical rather than either pragmatic or religious, or merely political or emotional. Politically, of course, our perspective is libertarian. Libertarianism's basic principle is that, under justice, each of us has the obligation not to aggress against (violate the rights of) anyone else -- for any reason (personal, social, or political), however worthy.
The Libertarian Case Against Abortion
To explain and defend our case, LFL argues that: 1. Human offspring are human beings, persons from fertilization. 2. Abortion is homicide -- the killing of one person by another. 3. There is never a right to kill an innocent person. Prenatally, we are all innocent persons. 4. A prenatal child has the right to be in the mother's body. Parents have no right to evict their children from the crib or from the womb and let them die. Instead both parents, the father as well as the mother, owe them support and protection from harm. 5. No government, nor any individual, has a just power to legally depersonify any one of us, born or preborn. 6. The proper purpose of the law is to side with the innocent, not against them.
Abortion Rights
A special edition of the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, is devoted to articles contributed by LFL. It was edited by Doris Gordon and John Walker of LFL.
Quotations
My hope is to introduce as many who will listen, regardless of where they stand, to Libertarians for Life. For their arguments are persuasive, reasoning from science and philosophy. Anyone with an objective mind will find them hard to ignore. - Gary Cherone
Location
Wheaton, MD
External Links
--Gölök 10:49, 12 Jun 2006 (EDT)