Life, Rights, and Rock 'n' Roll
Gary
Cherone
poses some questions
to Eddie Vedder
-- Part II
"My
hope is to introduce as many who will listen,
regardless of where they stand,
to Libertarians for Life.
For their arguments are persuasive,
reasoning from science and philosophy.
Anyone with an objective mind
will find them hard to ignore."
-Gary Cherone
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 Abortion and Rights, a special edition of the International
Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, is devoted to articles contributed by LFL. It
was edited by Doris Gordon and John Walker of LFL. Single copies of this issue are
available from LFL as a fundraiser for a contribution of $25.00 or more. (Contributions are not tax
deductible.) |
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Libertarians
for Life
13424 Hathaway Drive
Wheaton, MD 20906
Phone: 301/460-4141
Email: dorisgordon@comcast.net
Web Site: http://www.L4L.org
Libertarians
for Life was founded in 1976 to show why abortion is a wrong, not a right. Our reasoning
is expressly scientific and philosophical rather than either pragmatic or religious, or
merely political or emotional. Politically, of course, our perspective is
libertarian. Libertarianism's basic principle is that, under justice, each of us has the
obligation not to aggress against (violate the rights of) anyone else -- for any reason
(personal, social, or political), however worthy.
The Libertarian Case
Against Abortion
To explain and
defend our case, LFL argues that:
1. Human offspring are human beings, persons from fertilization.
2. Abortion is homicide -- the killing of one person by another.
3. There is never a right to kill an innocent person. Prenatally, we are all
innocent persons.
4. A prenatal child has the right to be in the mother's body. Parents have
no right to evict their children from the crib or from the womb and let them die. Instead
both parents, the father as well as the mother, owe them support and protection from harm.
5. No government, nor any individual, has a just power to legally
depersonify any one of us, born or preborn.
6. The proper purpose of the law is to side with the innocent, not against
them.
For details, please read LFL's literature. |
