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To: Lane3 who wrote (1428)	12/18/2000 1:09:58 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6089

They seem contrary to me. Libertarianism (the philosophy, not the party) is about minimalist government and maximum individual freedom. I don't understand how a libertarian could be for imposing by law the religious views of some citizens on the rest of us. I think government should support and protect human rights. We have different views about what these rights are and where they apply. However if you do believe that a fetus is an unborn child rather then merely a blob of protoplasm then being pro-life is not inconsistant with being libertarian. Imagine there was some controversy about whether children below the age of 1 should have any legal rights. Imagine that the law said that it was ok for the parents to kill newborns if they did not want the child (and in some places and times this was the law). Imagine that many of the people who oppose this idea and think that newborns should be legally protected are members of a certain religous faith. Would protecting the newborns amount to imposeing their religon on others? Would it be incompatable with libertarian thought. I think of the unborn child as deserving of rights just as the newborn is. That belief leaves me with no choice but to be pro-life. If I truely believed that a fetus was nothing more then a blob of protoplasm then I would be 100% pro-choice as then there would be no justification for interfering in the woman's decision to have an abortion. Tim