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Seth Moulton speaking with John Berman and Alisyn Camerota on CNN New Day during a discussion of abortion funding.

What Can Libertarians do to Prevent Abortions?

In 2019, during an interview on CNN, one of the Democratic presidential candidates Seth Moulton expressed a desire to see the removal of laws barring federal funding from going to abortion. “I think it’s wrong. It disproportionately attacks women who don’t have the private means to afford an abortion. It’s sort of like saying, you

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Contraception and the Pro-Life Movement

Given how often we are accused of hypocrisy for not supporting contraception, it often comes as a surprise to many people to learn that the majority of pro-life advocates are not, in fact, anti-contraception. Conservatives are generally portrayed by the media and pro-choice advocates as being opposed to contraception, wanting to take away birth control

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Why Don’t Pro-Life Advocates Support Policies to Reduce Unwanted Pregnancies?

As pro-life advocates, we are often asked why we expend so much effort on trying to prevent abortion, instead of focusing on trying to prevent unwanted pregnancies in the first place. Pro-choice advocates and politicians in particular are often quick to suggest that we should forgo trying to enact policy to prevent abortions entirely and

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Viability as a Criteria for Personhood

Viability is often used by pro-choice advocates as a tool for establishing when the unborn child should be considered a person with legal rights and protections, and it is a principle that is widely used in society as a basis for law when it comes to abortion. For such a prevalent basis for policy, it

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