[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

The statement I responded to equated attendance at the Values Voters debate with other single-issue forums as pandering.

So, I ask, again, the second part of my question, especially in light of the evidence that some candidates are skipping certain forums, like the Values Voters debate, while attending others, supported by second amendment proponents, and in light of statements made by those candidates’ supporters here at FR:

What makes the 2nd amendment a federally protected right, but the UNALIENABLE RIGHT TO LIFE A federalist issue to be dealt with by the states?

[George W. Bush]

The unalienable rights listed in the Declaration cannot be assumed to have quite the same force of law as something written in the Constitution or in the Bill of Rights. Assuming that they are equal is a fundamental error. Consider to whom the Declaration was addressed and its purpose: to declare the rule of kings (England) to be invalid and as trampling the fundamental rights of man with which he was endowed by God, thereby making of the king a tyrant, much like the one the Puritans ancestors had executed under Cromwell back in England. See Isaiah 10:14 and the footnotes for the Geneva bible for the source of this line of reasoning.

Prior to that time, the right of kings was considered divine and ordained by God. The revolutionary rabble (Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, etc.) required a legal rationale by which to justify their rebellion to the world and to their fellow-colonists. This is why America was and always has been a danger to kings and dictators and that is why they always recognize us as such.

If you can explain how precisely the Declaration addresses abortion directly (other than repeating the words "endowed...Creator...unalienable...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness") then please explain how you read it.

If you want a fundamental right-to-life, then you have to amend the Constitution. Not a bad idea and I'm not opposed but that is how to do it. You'd also have to find wording to allow the courts to exercise the death penalty as well.