Laws permitting abortion on demand are often deemed to be liberal. Further, political liberals are frequently ardent defenders of such laws. I think these conclusions are mistaken. In a series of two posts I will provide some reasons why.
Most contemporary liberals advocate a form of the harm principle, famously articulated by Mill in On Liberty,
The [...]
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Is Abortion Liberal? Part 1
October 26th, 2008 11 Comments
Tags: Abortion · Classical Liberalism · Feticide · John Stuart Mill · Liberalism · Libertarianism · Murray Rothbard · Rodney Hide

