This claim seems to be conceptually confused, for a newborn is not the kind of entity that can have a right to enroll in PHIL 101. It seems that you have at least some interest in living so long as you have a desire to continue living. Thus you can have an interest in living even if your life is miserable. It is this interest that the right to life protects. Thus only self-conscious beings can have a right to life.
Rights trump other moral considerations.
Rights shield the possessor against claims of greater need. Neither exercising one's own rights nor respecting the rights of others will guarantee the best moral outcome. Rights imply obligations on the part of others. Membership in the species Homo sapiens is neither necessary nor sufficient for being a person. Extending the benefit of the doubt to other animals.