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To read our articles, check the Library! Get your LFL bumperstickers here! 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 are available from LFL as a fundraiser for a contribution of $25.00 or more. (Contributions to LFL are not tax deductible.) Life, Rights, and Rock 'n' Roll poses some questions to Eddie Vedder -- Part II "My
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regardless of where they stand,
to Libertarians for Life.
For their arguments are persuasive,
reasoning from science and philosophy.
Anyone with an objective mind
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One popular misconception is that libertarianism as a political principle supports choice on abortion. And major elements within the libertarian movement (the Libertarian Party, for example) take abortion-choice stands. Nonetheless, libertarianism's basic principle is that 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. That is a clearly pro-life principle. Recognizing that, and seeing the abortion-choice drift within the libertarian movement, Libertarians for Life was founded in 1976 to show why abortion is a wrong under justice, not a right. We see our mission as presenting the pro-life case to libertarians and the libertarian case to pro-lifers. Among supporters of LFL, some of us are members of the Libertarian Party, some are not. Some are religious, some are not. (Doris Gordon, our Founder and Coordinator, is a Jewish atheist.) Our reasoning is expressly scientific and philosophical rather than either pragmatic or religious, or merely political or emotional. To explain and defend our
case, LFL argues that:
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