One wonders how many of this year’s mid-term election races
were won, based on the claim that the prolife candidate’s position was contrary
to women’s rights, because he or she took a position against elective abortion
on demand.
Sociopaths notwithstanding, we all agree that adult human
beings enjoy an equal share in equal rights, which we commonly call human
rights. What, though, is that property we all share that grounds our human
rights?
Is it function, size, development, race, or gender that
grounds human rights? No, because these criteria sometimes vary radically among
people, while our claim to rights does not. Human rights do not come in
degrees. Our rights are based on what we are, not what we can do.
That universal property which grounds human rights is the
human nature. Human nature is not something that develops over time. Instead
it’s a necessary precondition for all of our subsequent development. Therefore,
human nature is prior to human development.
The continuum of human development begins at fertilization
and continues to natural death. All humans, from conception onward, have an
equal share in human rights, especially the right to life. Women's rights are
what they are because of their more fundamental basis in human rights.
Consequently, the rhetoric that the prolife candidate or
vote is one against women’s rights is absurd. Regardless of the fact that
approximately half of all abortions take a tiny female’s life, women’s rights
presuppose human rights, which all enjoy—almost all.
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