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.

The 20 Craziest Pro-Gun Arguments you'll ever read

Take each of these statements and substitute the word {guns} every time you see {x}.

1. Taking away {x} violates my Constitutional rights.
2. Nobody should have to register {x}. It's a private matter.
3. Allowing access to {x} is necessary to save lives.
4. If someone can't afford {x}, tax payers should help them pay for it, even if they don't agree.
5. The right to {x} is only a problem for religious people. It's nobody's business who buys or sells {x}.
6. Teenagers are old enough to make their own decisions about whether or not they want {x}.
7. Teenagers should be able to get [x}without parental consent or notification.
8. The world would be a better place with less people in it. That's why we need {x} - to help reduce the population.
9. The mentally ill should be given {x} whether they want them or not. After all, if they don't need them, nobody does.
10. People should be able to get {x} whenever they want and as often as they want for any reason or no reason at all. It's a right, and nobody should be able to stop you from exercising your rights.
11. Women need {x} to protect themselves.
12. Women are empowered by the ability to have {x}, and that's why it's important to keep them legal.
13. The government shouldn't have a say in who gets {x}.
14. People who are opposed to {x} are just trying to force their beliefs on other people.
15. Nobody should have to be educated about {x} before being allowed to get one.
16. Anyone who wants {x} should be able to just walk in and get them.
17. So what if {x} do kill people? The world would be better off with fewer people in it, anyway.
18. Making {x} illegal will only result in more deaths.
19. Giving poor people {x} helps them to reduce the number of children they have, and saves the government money.  Poor people need {x}.
20. If you don't like {x}, you just shouldn't get one.

Sounds totally insane to you, doesn't it? I know. It is.  It would be absolutely insane to pass out guns to people with mental conditions, or to encourage poor people to reduce their family sizes using guns. It would be insane to say that we should use guns to help reduce the world's population, or to say that nobody should have to be educated about guns before buying one.

Yet, these are the 20 most common arguments used to justify abortion - an act that kills a living human being without just cause or provocation and without benefit of a trial by jury solely for the crime of being "unwanted".  If it sounds insane to you to advocate guns because guns kill people, imagine how I feel when you spend your time arguing for abortion.  Abortion kills people. Get it?

Abortion kills more people than guns do every single day. It's not even a close race. almost 55 million deaths in the last 40 years.  It doesn't just kill the babies. It kills the mothers, too. How many more deaths are going to have to take place before you realize that banning guns without teaching people respect for life is a futile exercise?