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August 17, 2023 03:22 PM UTC
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How have the libertarians squared the circle when it comes to the issue of freedom and reproductive choice?
Your issue is there, but the pathway to develop it is rather tenuous.
At the end of the State pledge is a notation to uphold the US and Colorado Constitutions.
In the Colorado Constitution, Article II, Sections 3, 4, 7 would appear to address this issue, particularly Section 4 which goes into some detail regarding freedom of religion.
As an aside, the ban-abortion bills that seem to appear in every session of the Legislature violate Article II, Section 4. I'd take it a step further to say that any legislator who votes for such a bill violates their oath of office to uphold the Colorado Constitution.
LB, their platform is vague. The Libertarian party platform includes the following statement, under The Individual:
Individuals own their bodies and have rights over them that other individuals, groups, and governments may not violate. Individuals have the freedom and responsibility to decide what they knowingly and voluntarily consume and what risks they accept to their own health, finances, safety, or life. Individuals must be free to make choices for themselves and accept responsibility for the consequences of the choices they make, provided those choices do not violate the rights of others. Our support of an individual’s right to make choices in life does not mean that we necessarily approve or disapprove of those choices.
This is not clear on reproductive rights. I’d say they’re probably split on the issue of abortion. Some will fall on the side of bodily autonomy for the pregnant person while others will fall on the side of the fetus as a person. They probably don’t want to piss off either side and choose to be vague.
Regardless, those on the side of repro rights shouldn’t trust their reproductive liberty to these boot strappers. Though I do think it’s funny how the L’s have the R’s by the short hairs and it remains to be seen if this will actually result in the election of any R’s in competitive districts. Much less in keeping any L spoilers out.
One of those "sides" is much smaller. There have been four anti-abortion and/or personhood ballot initiatives in Colorado beginning in 2008.
In those four, the "pro-life" position lost by an average of 67% against and 33% for. Those were not landslide losses. Those were brutal beatdowns put on the "pro-life" side by Colorado voters.
It sounds like an ideological Rorschach test where it depicts whatever the viewer sees in it.
For a political party that is critical of the milquetoast ambiguous positions taken by mainstream parties, they have some chutzpah.
IIRC, there was a time they were pro-choice. Period.