Republicans are tepid about protecting the lives of unborn children. For this reason and others, the Christian church historically has opposed elective abortion. The same Christian church, which in its first few centuries rescued abandoned children legally cast into the drainage ditches in ancient Rome, could scarcely be counted faithful to its heritage if it today dismissed concerns over legalized abortion. There is no other word for it. This puts the issue in sharp perspective.
Libertarians are still in a fight about over legalized abortion.
All of us want to keep the state out of people s lives. We also want to keep murder out of people s lives. Among libertarians, the issue related to abortion is simply when life begins. If it begins at conception, it does no good for certain libertarians to argue that criminalization of abortion conflicts with libertarian principles. If the unborn child is human, he deserves the same legal protection as adults.