There is no "Right to Life" in the US Constution, neither implied or explicit.
If the reference is to "...that among these are Life, Liberty, and..." that's in the Declaration of Independence, which, I believe, was not predicated on the issue of human reproduction.
There is also no right to kill an unborn child in the Constitution either.
Yes, there is.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
From Dictionary.com:
PosterityPos*ter"i*ty\, n. [L. posteritas: cf. F. post['e]rit['e]. See Posterior.]
1. The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham.
If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity. --Shak.
2. Succeeding generations; future times. --Shak.
Their names shall be transmitted to posterity. --Shak.
Their names shall be transmitted to posterity. --Smalridge.
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
One of the "blessings of liberty" is obviously life, we fought the Revolution for this right. "To ourselves and our posterity" can ONLY mean that the Founding Fathers wanted to secure this right not only for themselves, but for those not yet born.
Amendment XIV: "...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..."
How much more explicit do you want it?
"...unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,..."
So it's in the Declaration of Independence.........you write:
If the reference is to "...that among these are Life, Liberty, and..." that's in the Declaration of Independence, which, I believe, was not predicated on the issue of human reproduction.
Really?
It says that LIFE is an UNALIENABLE RIGHT. What part of that would exclude a living baby inside the womb?
It depends on the meaning of the word “person.” Ordinarily this is taken to be a living, individual human being. Scientifically, the unborn qualify. They are indisputably human. They are indisputably alive from the moment of conception. They don’t die and then come to life. They are not a blob of tissue but living tissue forming a human person.
The right to life is prior to the right to liberty, because you can’t very well be free if you are killed.
People are appearing here by other means?