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].
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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].
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