They ignore the possibility of the collision of two equally well formed and honorable principles. A just government can do no better than providing the greatest good to the greatest number. Yet, as you will see, they are hardly mutually exclusive and independent of one another. Forgetting for a moment the contradictions inherent in the extremist position that life begins at conception, or in the case of conservative Catholic dogma, at the first glint in Mama's and Daddy's eyes, I want to examine the corner that the choice advocates have painted themselves into, including libertarians. It is clear that the first principle above implies that a believer should be firmly and steadfastly for choice in this case.
Abortion is legal.
The woman carrying the fetus should and must be the one who chooses if and when. No 'cepts, no buts. When you knead in the second principle things become a bit complicated. Even if you do not believe that the fetus is a human life being killed, third term abortions carried out in the fashion of partial birth abortions are about as close as one could get to infanticide, to which absolutely no sane person subscribes, without stepping over the infanticide line. Interestingly enough, doctors justify this procedure as the safest and most effective way to carry out late term abortions.