Editing Libertarians for Life (section)

== Views ==
To explain and defend its stance on abortion, Libertarians for Life argues that:<ref name=case>{{cite web | url=http://www.l4l.org/ | title=The Libertarian Case Against Abortion | work=Libertarians for Life | publisher=(l4l.org) | accessdate=December 28, 2009 }}</ref>
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# Human offspring are human beings, persons from fertilization.
# Abortion is homicide – the killing of one person by another.
# There is never a right to kill an innocent person. Prenatally, we are all innocent persons.
# A prenatal child has the right to be in the mother's body. Parents have no right to evict their children from the crib or from the womb and let them die. Instead both parents, the father as well as the mother, owe them support and protection from harm.
# No government, nor any individual, has a just power to legally "de-person" any one of us, born or preborn.
# The proper purpose of the law is to side with the innocent, not against them.
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None of the arguments are based upon religious belief, and are intended to appeal equally to [[Atheism|atheists]] and [[Theism|theists]]. This is a point of pride for the group, claiming to rely on science and reason, while both [[anti-abortion]] allies and [[abortion rights]] opponents use what they view as non-scientific or unreasoned arguments.<ref name=case/><ref name=journal>{{cite journal | last=Gordon | first=Doris | year=1999 | title=Abortion and Rights: Applying Libertarian Principles Correctly | journal=International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy | publisher=MCB UP Ltd | volume=19 | issue=3/4 | pages=96–126 | url=http://www.l4l.org/library/abor-rts.html | issn=0144-333X | doi=10.1108/01443339910788811| url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=message>{{cite book | last=Lewis | first=Larry L. | title=Proclaiming the Pro-Life Message: Christian Leaders Address the Abortion Issue | publisher=Hannibal Books | location=[[Hannibal, Missouri]] | year=1997 | page=27 | isbn=978-0-929292-84-7 }}</ref>