Abortion is a leading controversial topic raging throughout the United States. A ban or suppression of the availability of abortion procedures is fundamentally wrong and should not be imposed upon a society. In medical terms, an abortion is the deliberate termination of a pregnancy, and currently cannot be performed after 24 weeks into the pregnancy anywhere in the United States. This condition is in place because this is the earliest recorded time in which a fetus was viable, referring to the point at which the baby could survive outside the womb (with medical assistance at first). The defining feature of Libertarianism is that all humans own themselves and all extensions of themselves, such as their labor. Abortion, when faced with Libertarian
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There is no objective point for when life as a human being begins because of the lack of neural functions and cognitive ability within the womb, leaving a gray area between living biologically and living morally. Therefore, it is a stronger stance to define the beginning for a human to be at birth, or at least when the baby becomes viable. In regards to opposing libertarians, it is more logical because birth is when the baby becomes physically and somewhat mentally independent from the mother (though, development must be nurtured), and therefore should then begin to gain its rights as a human to property and all the rights derivative from it. As far as social systems are concerned, an allowance for abortion fits better within a libertarian framework because it allows for less government involvement into daily life which more closely fits the laissez faire government system that Libertarians hope for. Allowing abortions, rather than suppressing them, is also more consistent with the freedom of contracts. Allowing abortion lets those who wish to have one, do so of their own free will with their own property. However, it also permits those who do not wish to have one not be forced to because a valid contract may include no coercion. Regulating an end to abortion would then be restricting the freedom that individuals naturally
There is no objective point for when life as a human being begins because of the lack of neural functions and cognitive ability within the womb, leaving a gray area between living biologically and living morally. Therefore, it is a stronger stance to define the beginning for a human to be at birth, or at least when the baby becomes viable. In regards to opposing libertarians, it is more logical because birth is when the baby becomes physically and somewhat mentally independent from the mother (though, development must be nurtured), and therefore should then begin to gain its rights as a human to property and all the rights derivative from it. As far as social systems are concerned, an allowance for abortion fits better within a libertarian framework because it allows for less government involvement into daily life which more closely fits the laissez faire government system that Libertarians hope for. Allowing abortions, rather than suppressing them, is also more consistent with the freedom of contracts. Allowing abortion lets those who wish to have one, do so of their own free will with their own property. However, it also permits those who do not wish to have one not be forced to because a valid contract may include no coercion. Regulating an end to abortion would then be restricting the freedom that individuals naturally