You missed the point. I am all for the right of self- defence, but that right isn't inalienable or innate. No rights are.
Maybe not where you live, but in the US, certain rights ARE inalienable. The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable.
Those rights do not come from government. We possess those rights in virtue of our existence. Some rights DO come from government, but fundamental rights do not.
Rights are arbitrary, decided by those in charge of any given society, and they change all the time.
That may well be. This is the whole point behind the great experiment of the US. Rights that are inalienable do NOT change over time, rather, they are recognized and safeguarded.
For many years, centuries even, women had the right to abort their pregnancy at any time before quickening. A right sanctioned by the Church.
Not true. The RCC was ALWAYS against abortion. The RCC did NOT always teach that life begins at conception, but the RCC always condemned abortion at ANY stage.
In the second place, even if the RCC sanctioned abortion at one time, SO WHAT? What does that have to do with NOW?
More to the point: when I have I ever appealed to my Church, religion, holy book, or God as a reason why abortion must be outlawed? YOU are the one bringing religion into the discussion, not me.
Then that right was taken away, then it was given back. The situation in different countries had fractured, just as the Church has fractured. Now the Church has no say.
We have a voice--and believe me, we will continue to use it until the scourge of abortion is lifted.
Perhaps rights on abortion should revert to those in place when the constitution was founded.
In the US, until the SCOTUS in 1973 conjured the right to abortion, it was a state issue. Now that the SCOTUS has overturned Roe, the issue has gone back to the states in the absence of federal legislation.