WP Departmsism

 Through Departutism I view the lethal removal of an unwanted fetus as not legally permissible for the mid term (except in cases where the pregnancy jeopardizes the life of the mother, rape and incest)

Both departurism and evictionism acknowledge that a fetus is a distinct, living human being and, further, admit his personhood.

What makes these theories uniquely libertarian is twofold: They view the abortion issue in the mid term through the lens of property rights, allowing that an unwanted fetus is to a mother what a trespasser is to the owner of the property in question.

They conceptually separate abortion in the mid term into (a) the removal of the child from the womb and (b) the resultant death of the child. Abortion, thus, is understood as lethal eviction. Both theories view the act of eviction, in isolation, as more or less broadly justifiable while justification for the full act of abortion is (for differing reasons and to varying degrees) more narrowly conceived.

Moreover, each of these approaches argue that the fetus is without mens rea in his occupation of the mother’s premises (her womb), and so its treatment at the hands of the mother must be in accord with gentleness all in the mid term