DOES LIFE BEGIN AT BIRTH?

This is an argument I hear often from Liberals. A fetus, they argue, is not “living” until after they are born. Indeed, in the article “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?" (http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2012/03/01/medethics-2011-100411.short)  in the Journal of Medical Ethics, authors Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva argued, even though life begins at birth, abortions should be legal until some time AFTER that point in time.

So, the question is this: DOES life begin at birth?

Because, if it DOES, then the act of abortion is a violation of our founding documents. (Remember that included in the documents that founded and defined our nation is The Declaration of Independence, which laid out the case for our separation from the crown.

And, in that document, it 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.”

“…that among these are Life…”.

The Declaration of Independence states, specifically, that we have a right to Life; a right to birth, a right to be born. And states, specifically, that this right transcends government, since it defines the right to be born as a right that is unalienable (NOT granted by government, but rather by our “Creator”….which is NOT government.)

I ask, constantly now, several questions that Liberal never get around to answering. I will now add these two:

“If our Declaration of Independence recognizes the unalienable right to life, doesn’t that mean that an unborn human being has a right to be born?”

And…

“Should abortion be legal AFTER birth? And, if not…WHY not?”

I eagerly await answers….