inalienablerights

“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.”  Regular followers of Constituting America understand the importance of this passage from the Declaration of Independence and our natural rights: rights given to us by God that can never be taken away.  But take this a step further and you see how these inalienable rights begin to create our system of justice.  Without natural rights, rights become merely a privilege and can be taken away…justly or unjustly.  We are delighted to have Dr. Jason Stevens, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ashland University, joining our all-star student panel as we dig deeper into our natural rights to find our foundation of justice.

Spurred on by the recent interview with Jordan Peterson on Dave Rubin's podcast, Dr. Morse and Fr. Rob Jack discuss the inevitably tragic consequences that come from trying to separate children from their birth mothers via 3rd party surrogacy, and how those efforts to help people "self actualize" are a moral wrong against the children they engender.