Every person created has rights, and has the right to live and be alive. Although, in our country unborn babies are beginning to have less, and less rights. One of the main rights that was taken away from them is the right to live. Mothers now have the option to murder an unborn baby, due to the fact that they believe it is not a human being yet. The unborn are separate humans who deserve to have rights like all humans.
A person is defined as: an individual human, one who is not a part of another. “ It is biologically false to say that the unborn is not an individual.”1 When an egg is fertilized it no longer is tissue part of the mother, but a new, individual human being. Every cell that was created in the unborn’s body is entirely different from that of the mother’s. The entire genetic makeup of the child is completely different from the mother, and in many cases it’s sex is
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As stated in the United State’s Declaration of independence, “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.” This statement was created to insure that all citizens can be equal and be a person. If “all men are created equal” does it mean that the unborn are excluded from this right? Many other laws and rights created in the constitution can be shown to completely contradict the point that fertilized eggs are not people. Even though a human within is tiny it does not mean that they should be stripped of the right to be equal? Ronald Reagan, former president (and an expert on constitutional rights), stated when he was in office that, “I believe that until someone can establish that the unborn is not alive, then that child should be protected by the Constitution.”4 We then should not view fetuses as things without rights, but people with constitutional