If the Declaration states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to human offspring in the womb. One human being has the right to take the life of another only in defense of his own life, or when through acts of war an aggressor forfeits his immunity from harm. This means that, except where necessary to save the physical life of the mother, abortion involves the unjust taking of a human life. The mere fact that the individual in the womb is wholly in its mother's physical power, and completely dependent upon her for sustenance, gives her no right whatsoever with respect to its life, since the mere possession of physical power can never confer such a right. Might does not make right.
Abortion is therefore a breach of the fundamental tenets of our public moral creed.
We're going to have to find the courage one of these days to tell people that freedom is not an easy discipline. Freedom is not a choice for those who are lazy in their hearts, and in their respect for their own moral capacities. Freedom requires that at the end of the day, you accept the constraint that is required, the respect for the laws of Nature and Nature's God, that say unequivocally that your daughters do not have the right to do what is wrong, that your sons do not have the right to do what is wrong. They do not have the right to steal bread from the mouths of the innocent. They do not have the right to steal life from the womb of the unborn.