@mjs_DC@ishapiro Cato is trying not to get burned in the conservative circles it moves in, I get it. And they cite reasons, but they’re reasons that apply to any issue Cato routinely opines on. I suppose that whether the state owns the bodies of its citizens is a “political issue,” but ummm…
@mjs_DC@ishapiro As far as I can tell, the Cato Institute, and @ishapiro in particular, have strong legal opinions on what constitutes undue burdens on the exercise of civil rights, and what control the state has over the person of its citizens. They just find those positions inconvenient now.
@mjs_DC@ishapiro To the extent that the lawyers @ishapiro cites as being deeply committed libertarians who believe a woman can be compelled by the state to bring an non-consensual conception to term using state violence actually exist, I would submit they don’t belong at a libertarian org.