Once Again, Evictionism Is Not a Solution: Response to Professor Walter Block

Abstract

The present paper argues that Professor Walter Block’s evictionism is not a solution to the abortion dilemma. Being a response to Professor Block’s recent article published in this journal, my piece submits (in some respects once again) that evictionism should be rejected because contrary to what it claims: (1) the unwanted fetus is not a trespasser; (2) there are insufficient reasons to support the premise that our life and thus our concomitant self-ownership status begins at the moment of conception; (3) evictionism entails positive duties; (4) evictionism conflicts with the homestead principle; (5) instead of being an original solution to the abortion dilemma, evictionism collapses into a well-known doctrine of doing and allowing; and (6) eviction is not the gentlest way possible of securing the woman’s rights.