Duh, Libertarians oppose murder as an act of aggression and believe it should be stopped by government or by ethical people (since libertarian anarchists don’t believe in government at all–but that would not be Ron Paul’s position). If a Libertarian believes abortion is murder he is quite likely to oppose it and he should oppose it.
For too many people “reasoning”involves rationalizing whatever sexual utopia they want no matter what. They don’t even understand people who reason from principles and stick to them. They can only assume such people have a perverse desire for something bad and are making up reasons to get there. Pure projection.
By the way:
Atheist & Agnostic ProLife League
ProLife Alliance of Gays and Lesbians
LeftOut: A Haven for Progressive ProLifers
Figuring out that you shouldn’t kill babies isn’t only within the abilities of “conservatives” or any other one religious or political group. If you want to kill babies you’re going to have to explain your preference without leaning on your politics as your excuse.
This is one of those times when you just have to say that there underlying spiritual problem is the only explanation for this. There is absolutely nothing logically inconsistent with believing that babies’ noses, brains, livers, and elbows should have the same protection that libertarians extend to everyone else’s noses. This is exactly the same sort of argument that led people to say that a state’s right to determine things over against federal interference meant that practicing slavery was not a violation of the rights of men, but rather an establishment of them. Big-L movement libertarians don’t realize that they are making exactly the same “only people who count have rights, and everyone else gets to practice their rights at the expense of those who don’t count” argument that the confederates made. Yet the only reason I can fathom for why they don’t realize that is that they’re somehow blinded.