A Pro-Life Libertarian Case for Abortion Rights Partial birth abortion is now back in the national spotlight after the last presidential debate. Many of my most thoughtful libertarian friends are…
Many people believe abortion is baby murder. (Here, I use the term “murder” to signify the morally wrongful killing of an being that possess significant rights.) I don’t agree that…
I’m pro-choice. But here’s an argument against the moral permissibility of abortion I haven’t seen: Recall Singer’s thought experiment about the drowning toddler. DROWNING TODDLER: You are walking alone one…
A few days ago, I posted about the Planned Parenthood video, which had been edited together to make it seem as though PP administrators commodified (bought and sold) organs and…
UPDATE: Just in case it’s not clear, the thesis of the post below is “If abortion were wrongful murder, then lying to stop it or reduce the amount of it would…
Imagine for the purposes of this post that personhood begins at conception, as many pro-lifers believe. Imagine further that you’re a standard self-ownership libertarian, who believes that all people, fetuses…