I identify as a Libertarian, but I always have difficulty fitting it into our present Rep/Dem system. I respect the size and the passion of the pro-lifer contingent, but not the way they can rationalize the violation of the living, citizen mother's rights. I tend to side with the mother. But I also have issues with the father's role. If he's responsible for the future of the child, then his rights have to also be supported, too. Currently, he has little power in the decision. If the State has rights, then the father must have rights, as well.

As a compromise, I think 3rd term abortions could be banned. By that time, the fetus is almost viable outside the womb. Once the mother's rights can be separated from the fetus, the conflict between the rights of the two parties (mother and child) is greatly reduced, as well as the rights of the father and the State.

Opposing abortion as an aggression against individual rights violates a living citizen's rights for that of a future citizen. To me, it's irrational. But I think the current system, where abortion is promoted as an act that has little social shame, is an abomination.