You’ve got it exactly right.
In addition, the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments explicitly protect the life of every person, and require that all persons, in all the states, enjoy the equal protection of the laws.
Also, the Eight Amendment forbids cruel and unusual punishment, even for the guilty. The act of aborting a child is the commission of a brutally cruel and unusual murder of the innocent.
The Ninth Amendment acknowledges that the individual has God-given unalienable rights whether they are enumerated to anyone’s satisfaction in the Constitution or not.
And the Tenth Amendment makes it clear that all must stay within their lawful powers. There is NEVER any lawful state power to violate God-given, unalienable rights. To say there is is to deny the first principles of our nation’s founding, as found in America’s charter:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men...”
...they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I point this out because it was the practice to capitalize all references to God, such as "Him" and "Creator." Following this practice, the gifts of the Creator, namely Rights to Life, Liberty, and Happiness, are capitalized, too. Furthermore, in the preamble to the Constitution, the word Blessings is also capitalized, which I take to mean from the Creator, and Liberty is also capitalized, which is one of the three rights from the Creator mentioned in the Declaration.
All this, taken together, tells me that the Founders intended the Constitution to protect the Blessings of the unalienable rights that come from the Creator, and not just to us but to our children and their children.
-PJ