I question the very supposition that natural rights should be conjoined with legal rights, as I have recently brought up again below.  

The reasoning here seems to me to suggest that there is connection between the two (or at least to suggest in some way that there SHOULD or OUGHT to be a connection); this is a moral argument, not a legal one.  The POV is not neutral.  This question comes up in the very opening paragraph of SEP entry for legal rights, the issue: "Whether legal rights are conceptually related to other types of rights, principally moral rights"  [].  We need to talk about what is being inferred here by these two entries being together. I too believe the entries need to separated, as to link them suggests a direct link between legal and moral rights. I do not believe that there is connection, although some people think that there should be.  Reason and passion are separate under the law.