Consider your comment about “hypocrisy” and the killing of a fetus, AND the comment about governments commiting violence against people who have been born with regard to their “personhood.”

No one denying anyone their “personhood.”

The issue is innocent vs. guilty. Death penalty and war against terrorists kills criminals. Abortion kills innocent babies.

But, you would have to believe that the fetus is a real human being to follow all of that. That is a different discussion.

I’ve also, much more often, encountered so-called “libertarian” pro-lifers who are actually just anti-abortion conservatives who might happen to have some somewhat libertarian positions on one or more issues (but haven’t actually embraced libertarianism as a philosophy).

The former have my respect, even if I personally find them unconvincing. The latter don’t because, as I point out above, they’re largely hypocrites (if not maniacs) — because that’s how I see all statists.

As an anarchist, I’m usually on decent terms with the former because they know I:

1) Support their right to freedom of speech to continue trying to peacefully make their case to individuals.

2) Support the rise of a future stateless society that could never force them to subsidize abortion through taxes, because there would be no such thing as taxes.

3) Support the rise of non-state voluntary legal networks based on contractual law — any one or more of which could “outlaw” abortion among its members who choose to subscribe to it (but nobody else). That assumes such networks always preserve the option of peacefully opting out of them — otherwise, we’re talking about a government. And since governments commit unjustifiable violence every day against people who have actually been born and for whom there is no debate on their personhood…

Ultimately, I was making a point in the post above about the attitudes and hypocrisy among statist pro-lifers. I could just as easily have made the same point if I was a “pro-life” anarchist. Truth is like that.

http://www.nrlc.org/

…and get the facts on abortion before you go defending the right to murder. The right to have an abortion is a selfish “right,” it is an act of pure violence. Read up on how an abortion is performed and see if you still support it.

An abortion is not the removal of a clump of tissue. It is the puncturing of an infant’s skull and sucking out the brains, it is burning the baby’s body with saline solution.

Don’t support the right of some whore to murder her own child just because it is politically expedient.

If you’re a true libertarian, you will oppose the government’s supported murder of an individual human being and admit that life begins at conception, not when we decide it is convenient.