Life: our first right

Published May 12, 2015 9:00pm ET



The Declaration of Independence states that all are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights: the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Of these three, life is a precondition to the last two, and thus the most esteemed and vital.

This most fundamental gift from God is constantly being misconstrued, threatened and all too often ignored. Every year, more than 1 million innocent lives are lost to abortion.

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