This Fourth of July: Celebrate Life, Our First Inalienable Right!

This Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and June 24 marked the fourth anniversary of the Dobbs decision. While it’s true the Supreme Court in the Dobbs Opinion dispelled the myth that a woman had a constitutional right to abort her preborn child, it failed to protect preborn babies.

I said at the time, “History will take issue with the Court's historic opinion in that it did not go far enough. It failed to ascribe personhood to what Justice Alito describes in his majority opinion as ‘unborn human being’, thus denying the preborn human being their inalienable right to life.”

With the Dobbs decision, states have again been given the right to decide which human lives are and are not the property of another human being. As a result, since Dobbs, abortions have actually increased because this kind of evil human injustice cannot be contained.

We failed to learn a lesson from our founders’ mistake when we enacted our Constitution by allowing slavery to be a states’ rights issue. That horrific mistake cost us as a nation 600,000 lives to end that evil human injustice and then another 100-plus years to eliminate that cultural cancer.

Regrettably, in the Dobbs decision, the Supreme Court lacked the political courage, intellectual honesty, and moral integrity to affirm that the Constitution and the 14th Amendment specifically protect the preborn human being's inalienable right to life.

In the brief four-year history, we can clearly see what a mistake

the failure to establish equal protection for all human beings, born and preborn, has been. As a result, some states passed laws protecting the preborn’s right to life, just to be undermined by states where abortion is legal, mailing their abortion products into pro-life states. All the while, the federal government does nothing to defend the sovereignty of those pro-life states and the preborn that their laws were intended to protect.

As we celebrate this very special 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, let us reflect on this divinely inspired document of self-evident truths.

The Declaration of Independence specifically declares that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

Our right to life exists because it is a God-given, inalienable, unchangeable right. It doesn’t exist because we are planned or wanted, or because of the circumstances surrounding our conception. Nor does it have anything to do with where we reside, like a mother’s womb.

The scientific, philosophical, and spiritual realities are that there is no significant difference between the embryo you once were and the adult you are today that justifies killing any “unborn human being.”

I sincerely hope that you have a fun-filled, memory-building celebration with family and friends on this 250th anniversary of the Fourth of July! I also hope and pray that you will make a personal rededication to advocating the self-evident truths so eloquently scripted in our Declaration of Independence and to do what you can to restore the inalienable right to life for all, born and preborn!