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Argument: Denying abortion rights forces maternity on women (state rape)
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Sharon Presley and Robert Cooke, The Right to Abortion: A Libertarian Defense, Association of Libertarian Feminists - "In the case of an unwanted pregnancy, the existential choice for a woman is not abortion vs. no abortion, but, as [Garrett Hardin] has pointed out, abortion vs. compulsory childbearing. If others can force her to be a mother... then she is coerced into putting her body at the disposal of the fetus as if she were an unclaimed natural resource or a chattel slave.... Thus, the woman's most fundamental right of choice, the right to control her own body and happiness, is being abrogated."[1]
Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Roe v. Wade, 22 January 1973 - "The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies."[2]
Ralph Nader, Interview on ‘Meet the Press’ May 7, 2000 - "I don’t think government has the proper role in forcing a woman to have a child or forcing a woman not to have a child. And we’ve seen that around the world. This is something that should be privately decided with the family, woman, all the other private factors of it, but we should work toward preventing the necessity of abortion."[3]
