POLITICS

Taxpayer funding of abortions wrong

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains is up in arms, and off to court, because of the governor's decision to cut off funding. While both the right and left sides of the political spectrum have begun digging in their heels over this, abortion is not (or should not be) at issue here.

What is (or should be) at issue is, does a woman have the right to take money which she has not earned from another person for her health care (abortions or not) by the simple virtue of being a woman? As noted, the right and left are prepared to use this as an abortion fight, but only the Libertarians agree that whatever your position on abortion (there are both pro-life and pro-choice Libertarians), a woman does not have the "right" to health care with money taken by force from taxpayers.

So, while a woman may or may not have the "right" to an abortion, you have the right to keep your money, even if the government has been negligent in recognizing that right for 150 years.

Joe Johnson

Chairman
Libertarian Party of Boulder County
Lafayette