{"id":281471,"date":"2022-12-12T16:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T22:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=281471"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:08:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:08:39","slug":"international-human-rights-abortion-kills-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/international-human-rights-abortion-kills-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"A reminder on International Human Rights Day: Abortion isn&#8217;t a human right, because it kills humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Today is International Human Rights Day, and despite claims by abortion proponents, abortion is <em>not<\/em> a human right.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for this should be obvious: because the act of abortion ends a pregnancy\u00a0<em>by <strong>killing<\/strong> a growing human in the womb<\/em>. Therefore, abortion \u2014\u00a0the intentional homicide of a human not yet delivered \u2014\u00a0<em>cannot be a human right<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Life, however,\u00a0<em>is<\/em>\u00a0a basic, natural human right.\u00a0It is not a right that the government can give or take away because it is a basic and fundamental right that every human being who comes into existence at the moment of their creation \u2014 fertilization \u2014 is due. Abortion denies human beings that right in an act of barbaric violence.\u00a0<em>No human right has a victim count<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>URGENT:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/future-of-abortion\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=minibomb\"><b><i>For every dollar given, 34 more people can be reached with the truth about abortion. Will you join us in this life-saving work as a monthly donor today?<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe women\u2019s rights are indeed human rights,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-cannot-human-right-kills-beings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explained<\/a> Susanne Maynes of Pregnancy Help News. &#8220;However, I disagree that abortion is a right to which women are entitled.\u00a0<b><\/b>Here\u2019s why:\u00a0Merriam-Websters dictionary defines human rights as &#8216;a right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person.&#8217; In any discussion of human rights, imbalances of power and resulting injustices must be addressed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also noted (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The moment you claim that your group gets to enjoy a human right\u00a0at the expense of another group, you are no longer talking about human rights.\u00a0<strong>You are simply demanding power over a people group different from your own.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>When a woman decides on an abortion, she is not merely exercising her human right to make reproductive choices.\u00a0Rather, she is using her power and agency to violate her baby\u2019s most fundamental right\u2014the right to live.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Commentator Ben Shapiro once <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ben-shapiro-destroys-abortion-arguments-no-one-has-a-right-to-kill-another-human-being\/\">strongly stated<\/a> (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The idea that you get to murder a kid\u2026 no one has a \u2018right to choose\u2019 this. No one&#8230; you don\u2019t get to kill it just because it\u2019s convenient to you&#8230;. That\u2019s an individual human being, and if that baby were outside the womb and you stuck a knife through its chest, you\u2019d be charged with first-degree murder. You kill it in the womb, and we call it a \u2018human right.\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>That\u2019s not a \u2018human right,\u2019 because that\u2019s a human and that human doesn\u2019t have any rights because you just decided its rights are less important than your right to your own convenience<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;This is not a matter of a \u2018women\u2019s right to choose. A slave owner didn\u2019t get to \u2018choose\u2019 to hold slaves; Nazis didn\u2019t get to \u2018decide\u2019 which Jews got to live. And don\u2019t give me the, \u2018it\u2019s legal, therefore it\u2019s okay.\u2019 Lots of things were legal; lots of things in human history have been legal that were totally evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that induced abortion kills innocent humans \u2014 and is, therefore, unethical. A woman&#8217;s possible feelings of empowerment or justification or relief after an abortion have no bearing on the ethics or morality of such a decision.<\/p>\n<p>No one, regardless of any court ruling or law, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-wrong-regret\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has the right<\/a> to cause harm to another living, innocent human being or to take that child&#8217;s life without due process of law. So while abortion advocates claim that pro-life laws restrict a woman&#8217;s so-called &#8216;human right&#8217; to &#8220;control their bodies&#8221; by killing innocent humans, the truth is that pro-life laws protect the basic human right to life that pro-abortion laws try to steal from a certain class of human beings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pledge.liveaction.org\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=prolife_pledge\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-277267\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pledge-live-action-ad-970x250-700x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is International Human Rights Day, and despite claims by abortion proponents, abortion is not a human right. 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