What are the three "inalienable rights" of the Constitution? Life, love, and the pursuit of happiness, right? What if I were to tell you that a majority is being deprived of at least one of these? How about all? Every year, millions are deprived of these basics rights, and their only crime was being conceived. I'm talking about feteses, in the beginnings of their developement.

For starters to take away someone's life you have to have their consent or have a valid reason. According to dictionary.com, valid is to be "well-founded in fact or truth". (Life or death, for example.) If someone is killed without either of these in place, it's murder. When a baby is killed (I use the word killed loosely) they have no say. When a child is affecting the mother's health, that falls under a valid reason.

A child that has been aborted, isn't loved at all. You know, there are orphans in other countries who have mental issues, because they are unloved. To throw away any human being (or animal) is evil. If the child could speak for itself, it would be angry and hurt to have been thrown away so easily. Love is such a simple thing, but it is so important to life. It can be as simple as having friends who are there for you, or family.

My last point is almost self-explanetory: the pursuit of happiness. If you die in your mother's womb, than you have no opportunity to pursue anything.

I've heard some claim that a fetus is just a mass of tissue, but that couldn't be further from the truth. By three months, which is about the usual time a baby is aborted, they already have their own fingerprints. They are an individual, with as much or more potential than an adult. Think of ti this way: a child that was conceived, through rape, ends up becoming a paramedic. You or someone you know is in a horrible accident, and the person who saves your life just might be that child who was allowed to live. However a child is conceived, that doesn't change the fact, that it is still a human being.

A fetus is so much more than just a mass of tissue. It has it's own DNA, it's own future. To take that away is to deprive them of the basic rights of our Constitution, the very documemnt that is the foundation of the United States. It says plainly in the Bill of Rights that "all people have three inalienable rights: life, love and the pursuit of happiness", so unless it's been ratified somehow to say that only those who are born have these rights, abortion is Unconstitutional; and, therefore, illegal.

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