Personally I don't think the State should be involved in it one way or the other. It's none of their business to whom I chose to bond myself religiously, assuming of course that all parties involved are doing so willingly and are of the age of majority.
We as human beings allow the State to intrude far too much into matters that are quite frankly none of their damned business.
Frankly I'm pretty much fed up with it.
I found your article to be very good in its logic and construction. I really have only any nit to pick with it.
As a libertarian I find abortion to be an almost completely unjustifiable act of violence against a totally innocent third party. To my way of thinking it's completely contrary to Libertarian principles. Once they zygote has attached itself to the uterine wall you have, scientifically speaking, a human being.
Killing it as a matter of convenience is abhorrent to me.
I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree on that.
Thanks for the article. It's good to see the voice of reason around here from time to time.
L
Lurker,
I incline to the original belief, unrevised by the biological sciences of gestation, that one becomes a human being when the soul enters the body at first breath.
I find it ironic that so many “fundamentalist” abortion opponents do so on the basis of a modernist biological view that either ignores the question of ensoulment or holds to the absurdity that a soul can fuse with an undeveloped zygote.
Neil