Murray Rothbard agreed with you that unwanted fetuses were illegitimate freeloaders which, as he explained, had no "right to be coercive parasites within the body of an unwilling human host" (THE ETHICS OF LIBERTY, ch. 14). This view was I think not very popular as it goes against natural human instincts. But if you accept it, shouldn't you also say that infants, toddlers, etc. are also freeloaders who you are free to expel? This was also Rothbard's view, at least as far as the law goes (it might not be moral to do this) and could be criticized in the s... (read more)
Murray Rothbard agreed with you that unwanted fetuses were illegitimate freeloaders which, as he explained, had no "right to be coercive parasites within the body of an unwilling human host" (THE ETHICS OF LIBERTY, ch. 14). This view was I think not very popular as it goes against natural human instincts. But if you accept it, shouldn't you also say that infants, toddlers, etc. are also freeloaders who you are free to expel? This was also Rothbard's view, at least as far as the law goes (it might not be moral to do this) and could be criticized in the s... (read more)