First Posted: 1/29/2013

Rights come from one of two places. Either we have rights simply by our very nature of being human granted to us by our creator or rights are created by men in the form of laws and bestowed on other men. In the first case, they are obvious and irrevocable. In the second case, they are completely relative and may be taken away at any time for any reason.
I believe that rights come from God and our very nature as humans. We have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. As our founders said, it is self-evident.
Requiring that someone provide you a product that violates their belief system or that others subsidize your access to a product simply because you demand it is not a right granted by our very nature as humans. Raising everyone’s insurance rates to cover the birth control medicines of some women isn’t a self-evident right. If the government has no place in the bedroom, then that includes birth control as well.