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Liberty, Equality, and Life

November 6, 2015/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard
Graphic via Online for Life

[Today’s guest post by B. T. S. Agnomen is part of our paid blogging program.]

Liberty and equality: our democratic
republic was founded on these twin principles. Yet even before and ever since,
individuals have posed this perennial question: “Are liberty and equality
consistent one with the other, or are they in conflict?”[1]

Like two sides of a coin, liberty and equality are not only consistent with
each other, they are inseparable. For who can be truly free if she is not
recognized as an equal among her peers? On the other side of the coin, who can
be truly equal if he is not free—at liberty—to pursue his life like all
others?



All coins are alloyed to some degree or another with impurities. Throughout its
history, the coin of American promise has been alloyed with various impurities;
we have never fully lived up to the ideals in our founding documents. In fits
and starts, Americans have eliminated many of those impurities, through the
successes of the abolitionist movement, the women’s suffrage movement, the
civil rights movement, and many more.



Yet impurities remain, and today,
the greatest of these is abortion, which denies equality and liberty to an
entire class of human beings: preborn children.



For what are the preborn but a distinct class of human beings? As the
biological progeny of two separate human beings, the preborn possess their own
DNA—their own unique genetic fingerprint, and thus they are nothing less than
human beings themselves. This is a basic application of the Law of Biogenesis.



Opponents of prenatal human rights must concede the biological facts. Instead,
they attempt to make a distinction between “humanity” and “personhood.” But again,
like both sides of a coin, humanity and personhood are inseparable.  That is, they are ontologically
indistinguishable. “Being a human with unalienable rights is bound up with
being a person. One can’t be separated from the other. All human beings… are
valuable persons.”
[2] The preborn
are not potential persons; rather, they are persons with great potential.
[3]


This potential, however, will never be realized if preborn children are
systematically deprived of their fundamental rights to life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness.



And what right is more fundamental than the right to life? Happiness cannot be
pursued without the liberty to do so, nor can liberty be obtained without life.
Deprive a person of the right to life, and you deprive that person of
all
their rights. What individual’s liberty, then, can outweigh another’s right to
life?



[1] Milton and Rose Friedman, “Free To
Choose,” 1980
[2] Greg Koukl, “Precious Unborn Human
Persons,” 1999
[3] Francis Beckwith, “Answering the
Arguments for Abortion Rights,” 1993

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