Buffet Civil Libertarianism

I am a pro-choice fanatic, but that makes sense for me. I am also a 1st amendment fanatic and 4th Amendment fanatic and 5th Amendment fanatic and generally think that for the government to tell people what to do with their lives and their bodies requires an extraordinary level of threat to society and safety and the public good.

What I will never understand is people who think that a woman has a right to have a child, or a right to not have a child acting by no lights but her own, but does not have a right to buy whatever size cup of Coca-Cola she wants.

In for a dime, in for a dollar.

Maternal CHOICE is one of the greatest individual freedoms in the world.

One person decides whether the planet we all share adds another human being or doesn't. And "we" have to deal with that human being long after their mother has died.

But there are people who believe that a woman has an absolute right to create human beings, but no equally broad rights to watch porn, smoke cigarettes or pot, throw out aluminum cans with the rest of the trash, fly a confederate flag, exchange sex for money or broadcast slanted news.

If it is okay to limit fast food portion sizes but not okay to limit population then we are talking about a pretty weird world!

For anyone who misses the point... Atheists sometimes note that the religious are already atheists about the 99.9% of religions they do not believe in, so why it is so okay to deny Zeus while being so not-okay to deny Jesus?

Similarly, I say to all of my fellow pro-choice people... you are already an extreme civil libertarian about perhaps the most meaningful and impactful spheres of individual autonomy (which is a good thing, IMO)