Essay Two: The Right to Life
Chapter Two: The Law of the Jungle, the Rule of the Law
Without the ability to come to a basic moral understanding, the foundations of a healthy society cannot stand. The current mode, which society bases its political and social decisions puts the freedom of expression above the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Through this gaze the right to an abortion is invoked through the liberty of the woman, man and society. The woman has her right to her professional work, the safeguarding of her reputation and a standard of life. The man has the right to his lifestyle, pursuit of his career and the enjoyment of the fruits of his labor. And for society, it has the right to control numerical population, guarantee the prosperity of its citizens and the management of resources.
Nevertheless exercising these rights leads to the detriment of a life. The rights of some are affirmed at the cost of the rights of another. This leads to the proof that to exercise the right to an abortion is in support of the mindset that laws are related to power and that laws protect the most powerful. This implication poses a threat to authentic democracy.
So in saying abortion is a right negates that all men are created equal and that it is a profound iniquity when the rights of some prevail over the rights of others. In fact, it negates that human rights belong to man by nature: fundamentally, the right to life.
"A state that claims the prerogative of defining who is and who is not the subject of rights consequently accepts that some persons have the right to violate the fundamental right to life of other persons, which contradicts the democratic ideal. When it accepts that the rights of the weakest may be violated, it also accepts that the law of the jungle prevails over the rule of the law." (p64)
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