They are not interested in stopping people from smoking pot, having abortions, or from spending their money as they see fit. Libertarians just want to leave people alone. An eclectic, nonpartisan organization, ALF has a membership that includes both women and men, straights and gays, anarchists and limited-government advocates, and proponents of the free market and communalists. The only formal stand taken by ALF is on the issue of reproductive freedom, adopted by the membership on October 20, 1977. ALF therefore opposes all practices and all governmental actions that restrict access to any of these means of birth control, and advocates the elimination of all laws and practices that would compel any woman to bear a child against her will.
Libertarian feminists intend to prevail.
In Oregon, there are signs that this method is effective. A great many women have already ceased political activism and are learning to live independently. They have already liberated themselves by adopting a lifestyle in communities where there is mutual respect among the individuals involved and a high degree of education, self-sufficiency and cooperative concern. To the degree that these women are free of dependence on public handouts or state help, they are the new rugged individualists, as are their male counterparts. Their search for a new identity and purpose is the same search that took pioneers west in the nineteenth century and sent sailors to sea.