The Most Important Right of All

Enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, but largely ignored by government, judges, and the public at large, is a right to life.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. " - Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson was a well-educated man, and the order in which he names the rights is neither accidental nor incidental.  That the right to life must come before all other rights is, if one thinks about it, a self-evident truth.  Of what use is freedom or rights to those who are dead?  They are beyond caring about the issues we find so absorbing.  They are also beyond the reach of earthly government laws, and are subject to laws of a much higher order if one believes in life after death. 

The reason the 2nd amendment, the right of the people to bear arms, was crafted was to protect that life from those who would seek to steal it by force.  Yet, in 1974, the government neatly ignored the logic and intention of the Constitution to create a "right" to abortion for women.  Sadly, almost 40 years later, the ignorance continues even and perhaps especially among the highly educated. Women such as Dana Kusnir who trumpet abortion as "one of the most important rights that a woman can have". Evidently, Ms. Kusnir does not understand what she is saying.  The most important right for any woman, whether born or unborn, is the right to life. The "right" to abortion deprives an unborn woman of that right.  It is an act of tyranny, an act so contrary to the intention and the logic of the Constitution that it begins to unravel the very fibers which hold the constitution together.

Abortion's legalization makes the right to life a right granted by the state, and thus an alienable right - one that can be given or removed at whim by the granter.  If the state can choose to give or to remove the right to life for the unborn, it can give or remove the right to life for anyone.  That's a dangerous power for any government, or any human being to have.  If the government can decide based on an arbitrary factor - whether a child is wanted or not - to permit an execution, what is there to stop that government from applying those same arbitrary factors to a born child or to a grown adult? When a born child or a grown adult is no longer wanted by parents or family or by the government themselves, what is there to stop the government from ordering its execution?

It's already happening all over the world. Switzerland allows "euthanasia" for mentally ill patients, who - if they are truly mentally ill could not be said to be of sound mind to make the necessary agreement to their death.  The Belgian parliament allows children to "choose for themselves" whether or not to be euthanized - as if children can be considered free of undue influence by caregivers or physicians themselves. The UK has authorized the euthanizing of autistic children and those with Alzheimer's disease, without the need for consent by the person being killed. The state giveth and the state taketh away.