Votto
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Here is a little history lesson for you since you don't seem to know.Oh wait! You tried sounding educated and informed, intelligent. The DNC? Is not the GOP asking states to address government rights over everyone in their respective states?
The idea of natural rights is the concept used in philosophy and legal studies that a person has certain rights from birth and which, because they were not awarded by a particular state or legal authority, cannot be removed, that is, they are inalienable. Such rights may include the right to life, liberty, equality, property, justice, and happiness.
Writing the Declaration of Independence
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (Public Domain)
Collectively, natural rights may be referred to as natural law, a subject of particular interest to philosophers of the Enlightenment. Natural rights can be contrasted with legal rights, those rights awarded to a citizen by the legal system of the state in which they are born or live (for example, the right to vote). There is much debate as to exactly which rights may be considered natural rights and, indeed, if there are any such rights independent of a given legal system. The acceptance of natural rights has often led to the formal protection of certain universal rights – what have become known as 'human rights' since they apply to everyone everywhere – in formal documents ranging from the United States Bill of Rights (1791) to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). As S. Blackburn states:
As of right now, those not born yet have no rights, but back when natural rights were first thought of, abortion was not really an issue so it was never addressed.
The state should make a ruling now that abortion is such an issue.
Does the act of birth make one human with accompanying natural rights or is it the viability of the unborn? Or is it something else?