July 28, 2025
A Birthright Citizenship case involving people who illegally entered the country, asking for legal rights for themselves and on behalf of their born and preborn children, captured the imaginations of many pro-life legal analysts. If the children of illegal immigrants have legal rights in the womb, why not the children of the United States, especially when you consider the risks they face not from deportation but from death by abortion?
In mid-July, U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante issued a preliminary injunction. This ruling stops the government from some deportation efforts by focusing on the rights of children and those not yet born. For the purposes of telling the Trump Administration that illegal immigrants could not be sent to their homes of origin, he made a legal class of “current and future children” who have rights. He limited it to those born on or after February 20, 2025, and wrote, “Although the future class member children have yet to be born, as soon as they are born, they will join the class and their claims will be ripe.”
“Ripe” means that a case can get going right away.
U.S. citizenship, the judge said, “is the greatest privilege that exists in the world.”
The Pro-Life Generation disagrees … a right to LIFE is much bigger for all who are at risk in the womb.
The irony of this case, in which a legal class of children not yet born is said to have access to legal privileges after their birth, isn’t lost on us.
Even liberal reporters have discovered their inner pro-life child.
A headline at the New York Times says a lot about how this is reported: Undocumented Women Ask: Will My Unborn Child Be a Citizen?
A better question is whether your preborn child is valued and protected as a human being from conception to natural death, no matter what country your parents were born in.
For court watchers like me, the left’s acknowledgement that children in the womb have rights that can be protected in the law and defended in court is good news … but we can’t stop with children conceived just this year and not by U.S. Citizens.
The 14th Amendment does protect preborn lives, and we will keep fighting for that to apply to all children – born and preborn.
READ: Reclaiming The Constitution FOR LIFE: The 14th Amendment For All