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Libertarian Party presidential candidate Austin Petersen<\/a> has been making waves lately, but unfortunately the buzz has also generated some misleading reporting on his pro-life stance, which ostensibly sets him apart from the Libertarian Party platform<\/a>, primary opponents Gary Johnson<\/a> and John McAfee<\/a>, and 62% of self-described libertarians<\/a>. At National Review<\/em>, Brooke Rogers reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat\u2019s right isn\u2019t always what\u2019s popular,\u201d he says. To Petersen, being pro-life also means opposing the death penalty, which his website says is the \u201cconsistent pro-life ethic\u201d [\u2026] The Libertarian nominee will certainly not garner enough support to make it to the White House in 2017, but a third-party candidate might be the only option on the ballot for \u201cNever Trump\u201d and \u201cNever Hillary\u201d voters. If it\u2019s Petersen, he says he\u2019s running on conscience, \u201cdamn the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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However, his platform<\/a> and answers<\/a> at last month’s Libertarian candidate forum deemphasize the president and federal government\u2019s role in abortion, in favor of rhetorically supporting a culture of life and most legal reform happening at the state level, which is disturbing.<\/p>\n

Abortion is ultimately a federal issue<\/a> because our Constitution expressly recognizes life as a federal right that Congress is specifically empowered to protect, and because the babies in danger are obviously powerless to change the laws of a pro-abortion state or move to a pro-life one.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s nothing compared to the disastrous answers conservative commentator Steve Deace got in an interview earlier this month<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Some people might say that birth control, like the morning-after pill for example, might be an abortion so they would outlaw that. But as a libertarian who wants to end the war on drugs, how can I jive those two positions?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Regardless of one\u2019s position on drug legalization, how is it difficult to jive different treatment of a drug that harms one\u2019s self and one that kills somebody else<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Next, Petersen offered the following\u2026explanation\u2026for downplaying the federal government\u2019s role:<\/p>\n

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Some people have said, \u201cAustin, you\u2019re not pro-life unless you want to put a tracking bracelet on every pregnant woman and haul her into court if she miscarries on suspicion of a potential abortion.\u201d So there has to be some sort of balance there where we don\u2019t want to turn the United States into East Germany where we track pregnant women, but we also want to find ways that we can use authority through the state in order to stop abortion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, because that\u2019s a totally<\/em> accurate characterization of what pro-lifer want and what federal-level protection of the preborn would necessarily entail. We\u2019ll come back to this insanity in a bit.<\/p>\n

Petersen next suggests openness to signing a partial-birth abortion ban, but is much more enthusiastic about making birth control over-the-counter to reduce abortions, as if throwing more birth control at a culture already saturated in cheap contraception<\/a> will have a significant impact. Who cares that this would overlook side effects<\/a> and in many cases simply swap out surgical abortions for chemical abortions?<\/p>\n

His best moment comes when he endorses the Life at Conception Act, the most important (and most overlooked) piece of pro-life legislation<\/a> before Congress. Yet Petersen seems unaware that the LCA specifically invokes Congress\u2019s 14th<\/sup>-Amendment power to enforce the right to life, leaving it an open question how much he would do after invalidating Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Finally, Deace challenges Petersen\u2019s notion that federal action to ban abortion amounts to \u201ccreat[ing] an authoritarian state like Venezuela\u201d by asking if the 13th<\/sup> Amendment federally banning slavery was also totalitarian. His answer is a doozy:<\/p>\n

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No, but it was an outcome of a bloody civil war, and I mean, if you want to have a civil war over abortion, I guess you\u2019re gonna have to make a case for why you think we ought to take up arms against our fellow citizens[.]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don\u2019t know what\u2019s worse: the malice of insinuating pro-lifers might want \u201cto take up arms,\u201d or the stupidity of suggesting a federal abortion ban couldn\u2019t come about without a \u201cbloody civil war\u201d first.<\/p>\n

The final point of interest came when Deace challenged Petersen on this police state nonsense:<\/p>\n

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DEACE: I\u2019ve been in the pro-life movement for years. I\u2019ve never heard anybody say put a tracking bracelet, I\u2019ve never heard this argument in my life.<\/p>\n

PETERSEN: Really? That\u2019s funny, because I sure do meet a whole lot of social conservatives who tell me that they would be more than happy to create an authoritarian government.<\/p>\n

DEACE: Can you introduce me to these people, Austin? You sure you haven\u2019t read these people in the comment section of Salon or Slate or Mother Jones?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rather than substantiate his accusation, Petersen played the victim card:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m trying to bring more libertarians to the pro-life cause, and it seems that all that the pro-lifers want to do is eject them if they don\u2019t want to use the same tools as they do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sure, Austin. It can\u2019t possibly have anything to do with you hysterically caricaturing pro-life desires as a knee-jerk response to any questions about your preferred tools\u2026<\/p>\n

I wish pro-life libertarians the best of luck in getting their movement to fully embrace the preborn, but Austin Petersen\u2019s comments suggest that severe stereotypes about pro-life goals and confusion about the role of the federal government in relation to the states will continue to be stumbling blocks for some time to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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