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In This Order: Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness The Declaration of Independence states: "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." Those are the unalienable rights. According to the American Heritage Dictionary: unalienable - Not to be separated, given away, or taken away; inalienable we cannot take away someone else's right to live! All other issues are irrelevant if you don't have life! Unborn embryos and fetuses are human beings. Fully and individually human from the moment of fertilization on - a biological fact. What is personhood? There are four basic ways that the embryo or fetus, who is not protected under the law, differs from a newborn baby, who is protected under the law:
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