The abortion issue is one where I am firmly in the undecided camp. Not because I disagree with either side but because I agree with both.
The Libertarian streak in me bristles at the thought that the state should control what a woman can and cannot do with their own bodies when it comes to having babies. What could be a more intrinsic and natural right than the right to decide one’s own reproduction? So a part of me agrees that a woman should have an absolute right to abort a fetus if she so chooses to do so — it’s her body. And there are ancillary arguments that are not without weight as well: 1) that if abortions aren’t legal and carried out by licensed doctors, they will be done anyway but by quacks with potentially fatal results for the woman, and 2) that if the pregnant woman is…
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