A Libertarian Perspective on the Stem Cell Debate: Compromising the Uncompromisible

Pro-choice activists argue that embryos are just biological material. On the other, pro-life activists regard it as fully human. Dr. Walter Block cuts the Gordian knot with libertarian reasoning which draws upon the work of Murray Rothbard. Yes, the foetus is indisputably a child, he says, but children are the quasi-property of their parents, who are responsible for a valuable asset which they should not mistreat, but they can dispose of. Hence the solution: foetuses belong to the researchers provided that no one else wants to claim them as their own and raise them. J Med & Philosophy