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RE: Who here is pro abortion?

in #abortion7 years ago

Hello Adam! I am libertarian from Poland with long expierience. An issue of abortion from libertarian perspective especially engages me for many years, maybe because I am both woman and medical doctor (I will be one in short time). I would like to discuss very important point from your article:

"If you own your own body, you have no obligation to use it to support another life against your will."

I absolutely agree, the need of one person doesn't create an obligation to any other person. But I also believe that my body is my property in exactly the same like other things that are my property, like a flat or a car. If I own my flat on seventh floor, and I invite someone to my flat, then I technically support his life with my floor. Does it mean I have a right to dump him from my balcony? I think not, as long as using my property according to my will is equivalent to actively killing someone (destroy his property of the body), I think it would simply violate the non-agression principle- if it is not a self-defence in contrary to agression on my property. Invited guest is not an agressor, even if I don't want to host him longer. Agression must be physical action in physical world. If he came with my consent, it was not an agression on my property, and if I change my mind in how to menage my property it still doesn't make him agressor. A child in uterus didn't trespass at any moment to, I can't simply menage my uterus with killing it, I would violate the NAP. I can't call it a self-defense because the child is not an agressor. I have to give him opportunity to safely exit my property just like I have to the guest in my flat.

And I think, that even in anarcho-capitalist land, the privite court should punish for abortion in most cases, because in most cases it is violation of the Non Agression Principle, not self-defense.

Sorry for my English. What do you think?
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