Would you support a pro-choice liberty candidate?

[Voluntarist]

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[Christian Liberty]

Why is it that the pregnant women seeking abortions always seem to be excluded from prosecution in these scenarios? Isn't it their decisions and actions that form the precipitating event in all of this. The logically consistent pro-life position, based upon the "baby killing" rhetoric, would be be to advocate manslaughter (if not outright murder) prosecutions for women who had aborted their "unborn babies". Due to the premeditated nature of the act, it would logically be murder rather than manslaughter - but seldom do I even see prosecution for manslaughter being advocated.

Ultimately, I'm with you on this. It seems like Laurence Vance is too:

If Roe v. Wade were overturned and abortion laws were once again made the provision of the states, there would be nothing unlibertarian about supporting state laws making abortion a crime just as laws against murder, manslaughter, and wrongful death are considered legitimate actions of the states.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2008/01/laurence-m-vance/is-ron-paul-wrong-on-abortion/

Not sure which one he supports applying and in which cases, but he very clearly addresses it and takes the pro-life libertarian POV to its logical conclusion.

Of course, we'd have to see a massive shift in culture before we got to that point, and ideally I'd like to see the free market replace the State, but ideally abortion would be treated no differently than murder.