Originally Posted by ngdawg

Points for some...misguided in others.
1) Read the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, then read the hundreds of other posts here. NOWHERE do they 'guarantee' life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to anyone but men as worded.
2) Nowhere in the Constitution are rights given to embryos or fetuses. Laws that include the death of these in assaults or murders make the presumption that the pregnancy was welcomed and that the fetus would have been viable had it not been harmed. Even then, state laws vary; where someone may be charged in an unlawful death of a fetus in one state, may not be included in charges in another.
3) Rights are not compromised or dismissed as they are not there to begin with.
4)'Child' is a stage, such as you are in now. You are not an adult yet. You were once a baby. Had your mother not been able to carry you for whatever reason and chose abortion as her option, she would not have aborted neither a child nor an adult-it would have been, in all likelihood, in the embryonic stage. Does this make it not a death? No, but it makes it within her rights to do so.
"Pro-life Libertarian" is a misnomer on your part. You are either for free will and the right to choose how one conducts one's life or you aren't.
Put another way: Do you live on your own? Make your own way? Make your own rules? Someone speaks for you, supports you, pays for your schooling, clothes, food, etc. You have limited rights as a child. You had no rights as an embryo. You will have more rights as an adult. Your parents, on the other hand, have all the rights accorded them as per the country's laws. Once they made the decision to have you, they took the responsibility as parents to exercise their parental rights. But first, they had to make that decision and they exercised their rights to do so.