Natural law is as it sounds, its laws that we can derive from our natural surroundings. Laws that are morally based. It is a type of law that does not need to be written down to be known. We use natural laws to base our beliefs on and we use it to help us formulate policies. Our text book uses examples of making abortion illegal as a logical progression of natural laws because the whole reason for marriage is to produce children (Roskin et al., 2012, p. 244). However we can see evidence of natural laws all the way back to our forefathers. The Declaration of Independence uses the phrase “we hold these truths to be self-evident”(1992), and many other influential American speakers such as Martin Luther King, jr. use that phrase repeatedly throughout