1. reverse Roe v Wade and, among some, put in place a constitutional amendment forbidding women the right to choose.
The former isn't imposing a restriction on anyone. The later, is as you point out something that receives narrower support, and also is only a clearly unjustified restriction on freedom if you assume that there is no other human life that has natural rights and should have legal rights.
In any case, if you take it as a clearly unjustified infringement on liberty, its isn't an idea that is going anywhere, so at least practically it would be much less of a danger than the infringements more associated with the left or the Democrats (I say "more associated", because they also get support from some Republicans)
2. Reverse all efforts at affirmative action.
Redusing or eliminating affirmative action in public/government institutions can be looked at as an issue that doesn't involve liberty at all, or one that increases it.
Eliminating government requirements for affirmative action in the private sector (whether they are explicit requirements, or laws, regulations, or tendencies in court decisions), increases liberty. And isn't imposing a social view on people, but is rather refraining from doing so.
So they only area where you have any argument in this category is government requirements to eliminate private affirmative action. That idea isn't exactly a major movement, or a plank of the Republican parties platform.
3. Oppose efforts to give gays and lesbians equal rights with heteros.
The only part that would amount to a large movement is opposition to government recognition of commited homosexual relationships as marriages, and giving them benefits as such.
If that is considered problematic, it would be so in terms of equal treatment, not in terms of restricting anyone's liberty.
As I replied to someone else on this issue -
"A large movement that would not approve of government formally recognizing such relationships as marriages, or giving the associated benefits. An insignificant movement that would try to stop them from having some ceremony, living together, saying that they are married etc. "Stop pairs of adult citizens from marrying each other" makes it sound more actually stopping people from doing things, rather than not recognizing or supporting those things." |
