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.
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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.
We should all save your post! And send it to the SCOTUS -
Perfect and "unalienable"
And those who dispute it can go suck an egg.