Fresh online: Walter Block & Roy Whitehead, Compromising the Uncompromisable: A Private Property Rights Approach to Resolving the Abortion Controversy,” Appalachian Law Review (2005) 4 (2) 1-45.
Source link: http://blog.mises.org/5705/block-on-abortion/
Block on Abortion
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Why would a fertile woman agree to a law that punishes women for having an abortion? How would such a law serve her self-interest?
What in the hell does self interest have to do with libertarianism? get out of here you sily randian. your not a libertarian at all. impostor.
If a fetus can’t think or feel that it’s being killed, shouldn’t that serve as a possible indicator that it does not have the mental capacity/cerebral cortex to be considered a human being?
it has nothing to do with pain. it has to do with property rights. IF the fetus is an autonomous being it has property rights over its own body. So the test is. If you kill the mother, does the fetus die the same moment the mother dies or does it die a few seconds later? if it dies later, even if its a few seconds, then it is a physically dependent but existentially separate entity and to kill it would be to violate its funamental rights. Whats the moral here? Use a condomn AND birth control or dont have sex. Or be willing to responsibly suffer the consequences. Put it up for adoption or something. But dont kill it.
basically what I am saying is that yes, a fetus is a separate entity and killing it violates its property rights. (right to life is really just a subset of right to property)
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