“Given the results of the government's War on Poverty and the War on Drugs, we can assume that a War on Abortion will lead within five years to men having abortions.”

—  Harry Browne

" The Libertarian stand on abortion http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/Abortion.htm.
2000s

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