Here is something interesting with from a Libertarian perspective, from Murray M. Rothbard's book, "For a New Liberty." This deals more with what he thinks the law should permit, rather than what should necessarily be considered moral, since no Libertarian would presume to tell someone else what they should think is right or wrong. Certainly not everyone will agree with it.

""Most discussion of the (abortion) issue bogs down in the minutiae about when human life begins, or when the fetus can be considered alive, etc. All this is really irrelevant to the issue of the illegality (again, not necessarily the morality) of abortion. The (religious) antiabortionist, for example, declares that he wants for the fetus is the rights of any human being - ie., the right not to be murdered. But there is more involved here, and this is the crucial consideration. If we are to treat the fetus as having the same rights as humans, then let us ask: What human being has the right to remain, unbidden, as an unwanted parasite within another human being's body? This is the nub of the issue: the absolute right of every person and hence every woman, to the ownership of her body. What the mother is doing in an abortion is causing an unwanted entity within her body to be ejected from it: If the feus dies, this does not rebut the point that no being has a right to live, unbidden, as a parasite within or upon some person's body.

The common retort that the mother either originally wanted or at least was responsible for placing the fetus within her body is , again, besides the point. Even in the stronger case where the mother originally wanted the child, the mother, as the property owner in her own body, has the right to change her mind and to eject it."

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Jason Priest
1999 E430
1995 E420 - retired
1986 420SEL - retired