It was Jeffersfon who, in penning the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that the right to life was “unalienable” because it was “endowed” to us by our Creator. Government’s role, according to this revered founding father, was to “secure” the unalienable rights conferred by the Creator on his creatures.
In the hue and cry that has surrounded the controversy concerning Terri Schiavo’s court-ordered death, many seem to have forgotten the role our Founding Fathers envisioned for government. There is a reason Mr. Jefferson and the founders attached such primacy to the right to life. The rifght to life is the “first” right. It is that right without which no other right can exist. The right to speak as one pleases, worship as one
In the hue and cry that has surrounded the controversy concerning Terri Schiavo’s court-ordered death, many seem to have forgotten the role our Founding Fathers envisioned for government. There is a reason Mr. Jefferson and the founders attached such primacy to the right to life. The rifght to life is the “first” right. It is that right without which no other right can exist. The right to speak as one pleases, worship as one