Anonymous asked: abortion pills should not be sold over the counter!! they should be illegal!!

Regardless of your position on abortion, you’re wrong. Not even hardcore statists demand that substances be made illegal simply because they can potentially be used to poison someone. Even if you’re silly enough to claim to believe that abortion is murder and should be illegal, that’s no argument for making the pills illegal, for the same reason that you can believe that murdering someone with rat poison should be illegal, but rat poison itself should not be. And those pills do actually have other medical uses than abortion, too - genuinely lifesaving ones. You have no legitimate justification for interceding, as a third party, to prevent such a sale, and neither does the state.

  1. sadoeconomist posted this