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Evictionism is a moral theory advanced by Walter Block and Roy Whitehead on a proposed libertarian view of abortion based on property rights. This theory is built upon the earlier work of philosopher Murray Rothbard〔"Literature of liberty," Cato Institute, v. 4, p. 12, 1981.〕 who wrote that "no being has a right to live, unbidden, as a parasite within or upon some person's body" and that therefore the woman is entitled to eject the fetus from her body at any time. Evictionists view a mother's womb as her property and an unwanted fetus as a "trespasser or parasite", even while lacking the will to act. They argue that a mother has the right to evict a fetus from her body since she has no obligation to care for a trespasser. The authors' hope is that bystanders will "homestead" the right to care for evicted fetuses and reduce the number of human deaths. They argue that life begins at conception and state that the act of abortion must be conceptually separated into the acts of: # the eviction of the fetus from the womb, and # the killing of the fetus. Building on the libertarian stand against trespass and murder, Block supports a right to the first act (eviction), but not the second act (murder). Walter Block believes the woman always has a right to evict but may only legally abort if the fetus is not viable outside the womb, or # the woman has publicly announced her abandonment of the right to custody of the fetus, and # no one else has "homesteaded" that right by offering to care for the fetus.〔 *Walter Block, Roy Whitehead, (''Compromising the Uncompromisable: A Private Property Approach to Resolving the Abortion Controversy'' ), (Walter Block personal web site. )〕〔Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski, ("A Critique of Block on Abortion and Child Abandonment" ), LibertariansPapers.org, project of Ludwig Von Mises Institute, VOL. 2, ART. NO. 16 (2010)〕 ==Embryonic research== Likewise, Block proposes that medical experimenters can treat the embryos they have in their possession as laboratory "animals", as is their desire, contingent on only one stipulation: that no one else wishes to raise these very young infants on their own. If there are adoptive parents who wish to homestead the right to care for the children, their rights trump those of the creators of the fertilized egg since the former wishes to protect the child from harm, while the latter does not. Thus Block offers an alternative to the standard choice between the pro-life and pro-choice positions on stem cell research.〔Block, Walter. 2010. ( ''A Libertarian Perspective on the Stem Cell Debate: Compromising the Uncompromisible,'' ) ''Journal of Medicine and Philosophy''. Vol. 35: 429-448〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「evictionism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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