Fine. I am pro-life, too. But you will never win a nationwide election if you make that the top plank in your platform. National security is, as it should be, the #1 priority.
What good is National Security if the basic unalienable Rights as endowed by our Creator - the Right of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness is not protected or is of a lower priority?
Many countries have strong national security – China or Russia for example. North Korea is really good at protecting their borders – both in getting in and getting out. Saudi Arabia ranks 7th in the world on defense spending. Do you want to live in any of those countries?
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” - Benjamin Franklin
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
“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, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Yes. National security and providing for the common defense is without question important. But it is not alone the means to the ends. It is meaningless if we make that the number one priority over the Right of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
YMMV.