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

Łukasz Dominiak

doi:10.18290/rf25734.15

Published : 2025-12-29

Vol. 73 No. 4 (2025)

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

Łukasz Dominiak

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6192-8468

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rf25734.15

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 the current issue of the 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.

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abortion, evictionism, libertarianism, rights

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Dominiak, Łukasz. (2025). Once Again, Evictionism Is Not a Solution: Response to Professor Walter Block. Roczniki Filozoficzne, 73(4), 277–292. https://doi.org/10.18290/rf25734.15

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