re: #668 Charles

And this will probably get me labeled even more of a RINO than I already am, but even if you could possibly know for a fact that a woman was using abortion as a method of birth control — I STILL say it’s nobody’s business but her own, and nobody has the right to step in and make a judgment on it.

Of course you have the right to make a judgment. That doesn’t mean you have the right to physically obstruct her from getting the abortion, nor to ask the gummint to be your proxy in obstructing her.

But you have a right (and maybe a certain degree of moral obligation) to “make a judgment” about the intelligence, sanity, and/or personal character of a woman who used abortion as birth control, just as one can make a judgment about straight men who won’t take personal responsibility for contraception, and just as one can make a judgment about gay men who freely choose to “bareback” outside of totally monogamous relationships, and just as one can make a judgment about motorcyclists who ride without a helmet.

(This is Libertarianism 101 — the right to economic boycott and the right to socially ostracize are vitally important precisely because there’s no such thing as a right to control other people’s behavior via government coercion.)