{"id":59871,"date":"2015-02-19T18:44:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T23:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=59871"},"modified":"2015-02-19T18:44:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T23:44:25","slug":"why-abortion-undermines-natural-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/why-abortion-undermines-natural-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Why abortion undermines natural law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>When the forefathers wrote the Declaration of Independence, the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were explicitly assured. They referred to these rights as inalienable: neither person nor government can deny another of them, because they come from a natural law that\u2019s ingrained in all human souls.<\/p>\n<p>The forefathers even explicitly mention \u201cthe Laws of Nature\u201d and \u201cNature\u2019s God;\u201d our country\u2019s very foundation acknowledges and is built upon the belief in a natural law that pervades every aspect of life. There\u2019s that word again \u2013 life: the first right promised to us as citizens of the United States of America. But unfortunately, that\u2019s where definitions become subjective, because who is considered a citizen, and if you don\u2019t fall under the requirements, does that mean you deserve to die?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Even after the Declaration was signed, and the Americans defeated the British, slavery was still in existence in the South. It wasn\u2019t until after Abraham Lincoln and the Union won the Civil War that the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery. Up until that point, African-Americans weren\u2019t considered citizens based solely on the color of their skin. They were considered less than human \u2013 3\/5 human, to be exact \u2013 marginalized not because any natural law stated such a thing, and in fact the Declaration itself even stated that all men are created equal.<\/p>\n<p>They were marginalized because of man and his power over language, who decided to interpret the forefather\u2019s declaration that all men are created equal as only all <em>white<\/em> men were created equal, and as such, only <em>white<\/em> men were endowed with inalienable rights by their Creator. We look back on that time period now and are appalled by the atrocities and injustice inflicted upon the African-American people, and we wonder how the law could have ever protected such behavior. Yet, we fail to see how oppression is still alive today, maybe in a different form, but being perpetuated in altogether the same way.<\/p>\n<p>In college so far, I have been learning about the power of language and the language behind power: that language <em>is<\/em> power, and power <em>is<\/em> language. While this might be true, truth is also truth, and no clever rhetoric can invalidate or eradicate natural law, although it may succeed in disguising it.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-choice camp, much like the slave-owners of the past, have decided they have the power to designate who qualifies as a human. They&#8217;ve used language to build a powerful industry that disguises murder in the name of feminism and women\u2019s reproductive rights. They&#8217;ve reconstructed the youngest stage of human development to be considered less than human.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pregnant-woman-baby-born-licensed.jpg\" alt=\"This is the reality, at all points in pregnancy, that Planned Parenthood denies.\" width=\"400\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pregnant-woman-baby-born-licensed.jpg 400w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pregnant-woman-baby-born-licensed-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Babies are now referred to as fetuses and clumps of tissue, as if these terms could possibly alter the intrinsic fact that a human life is a human life, as if they could detract value from something that is already priceless. Language cannot erode truth.<\/p>\n<p>The mindset America has adopted towards abortion undermines the pure joy that should come with parenthood because it tells parents, and especially women, that they have the power to determine whether or not their child lives or dies \u2013 that they have the <em>right<\/em>. What are rights again? I know we all have three unalienable rights which are the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but correct me if I\u2019m wrong, nowhere in the Declaration, or Constitution, or any additional amendments does it state that we have the right to assign value to a human life and then kill that life if we see fit.<\/p>\n<p>Under Roe v. Wade, the pro-choice camp again used clever rhetoric to argue that abortion falls under a woman\u2019s right to privacy, a right that isn\u2019t stated explicitly anywhere in the Constitution. This \u201cright to privacy\u201d details that women should be able to decide what to do with their own bodies. What this rhetoric deceptively leaves out is it isn\u2019t just a woman\u2019s body, but another human life is involved, and our rights end the minute they infringe on another\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion undermines the natural law instituted by our Creator and invoked by our forefathers in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. Abortion undermines the liberties America supposedly offers to all of its citizens. Abortion undermines what it means to be human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the forefathers wrote the Declaration of Independence, the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were explicitly assured. They referred to these rights as inalienable: neither person nor government can deny another of them, because they come from a natural law that\u2019s ingrained in all human souls. 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