Axismaster
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The official position of the Libertarian Party on abortion is neutral, saying that government should stay out of abortion rights while people should not be forced to pay taxes for government-funded abortions if they believe it is murder. For the most part, they will use the classical arguments that the Democrats use of being "personally pro-life." Now, this is not an attack on Democrats, because I also maintain that Republican politicians are only pro-life because it gains them votes and are willing to let abortion go on as long as there are votes to be had for talking about it. I on the other hand think that you truly have to be pro-life, and that means opposition to abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, illegal war, and any form of government sanctioned or administered killing. My libertarian argument for the pro-life position stems from the three highest rights that Thomas Paine enshrined. These are the rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. My belief is that these rights are sacred, far more sacred than a right to terminate a pregnancy. I also hold by destroying life, you are taking away the ability for that person to someday enjoy liberty and pursue their pleasures. The simple facts are that when you compromise one of those rights in the least, the other two are useless. Now, you may say that by taking away abortion rights I am taking away liberty and pursuit of happiness. Now, one of the key arguments of libertarianism is that you should have a right to do whatever you want as long as that does not compromise the rights or freedoms of another individual. I feel that you should be able to do whatever you want. I think you should be able to get married even if you are gay, smoke pot, own an assault weapon responsibly, watch what you want on television, listen to the kind of music you want, look at porn if you feel like it, and read or say whatever is on your mind, why? Because those are all free things, and sure, some people may not like it that somebody would watch something on TV, choose a homosexual relationship, smoke pot, own a gun, or do any of that stuff because it violates their moral standards, but they should never be able to do anything about anyone doing that as long as it is not hurting them, which despite all their arguments about the "breakdown of morality" it is not. Abortion is different on the other hand, it is the supposed rights of one person compromising the rights of another. If "rights" ever compromise anybody else's rights, then they are not rights. Abortion is not a right or a freedom because it trades one person's rights for another, all those other things, regardless of whether you think they are okay, do not compromise your rights so they should be allowed even if you disagree with them. Abortion is different, much different. You can talk about body freedom, but in the end, what about the body of the child?