Author: Murray Rothbard
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Year: 2007
Reviewed by Andrew Dahdal
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Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Year: 2007
Reviewed by Andrew Dahdal
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Authors: Michele Boldrin and David Levine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Year: 2008 Reviewed by Jeffrey Tucker Download PDF or Kindle version Authors: Frank Karsten and Karol Beckman
Publisher: Createspace Year: 2012 Reviewed by Sukrit Sabhlok Download PDF or Kindle version Where Keynes went wrong: and why world governments keep creating inflation, bubbles and busts1/28/2015 Author: Hunter Lewis
Publisher: Axios Press Year: 2011 Reviewed by Vinay Kolhatkar Download PDF or Kindle version. Author: Jeremy Waldron
Publisher: Harvard University Press Year: 2012 Reviewed by David Gordon Click for PDF or Kindle version ABSTRACT: This present paper is part four in a debate Sean Parr and I are having on abortion. Part one consisted of Parr, 2011. Part two consisted of Block, 2011A. Part three consisted of Parr, 2013. In my view, the proper libertarian position on abortion is neither pro-life nor pro-choice. Rather, ‘evictionism’, where the mother of a fetus has a right to evict it from her womb, in the gentlest manner possible (that is, to preserve its life during the process of eviction if at all possible), but not to kill it. As I see matters, Parr (2011, 2013) interprets “in the gentlest manner possible” so radically as to claim that the fetus may only be evicted if it is viable outside the womb; that is to say, he maintains that libertarianism is consistent, only, with the pro-life position. My claim is that this constitutes a radical misconstrual of libertarianism
AUTHOR: Walter E. Block (PhD, Columbia University) is Harold Wirth Eminent Scholar and Professor of Economics at Loyola University New Orleans. He may be contacted at [email protected]. [Download PDF or Kindle version] ABSTRACT: I will make the case that the departurist view corresponds to libertarian legal theory in a way that Walter Block’s evictionist theory on abortion does not. By allowing for an unwanted fetus to continue and complete its departure from its mother’s womb, departurism is a manner gentler than would be its eviction from the womb. The departurist theory therefore satisfactorily adheres to the libertarian axiom of gentleness and imposes no positive obligation on the part of the mother in so doing.
AUTHOR: Sean Parr ([email protected]) is a libertarian writer and theorist. [Download PDF or Kindle version] |
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