Also, Flip, I was thinking more along the lines of telling everyone that they have a "right" to this luxury or that piece of fancy.
When you start turning luxuries into "rights" you are gaming the board of economy right into a place where it
will stumble or fall. Because if a big house or a fancy car or a Rolex are considered "rights" then people will do whatever it takes to obtain them, including taking on crippling debt that they have no hope of ever paying.
And now you have a bunch of progressives(though they are hardly labeled as such) riding to the rescue and basically saying that "It doesn't matter that you flushed your life down the toilet with this debt, we'll cover you with tax money." It's not Government's place to live our lives for us and save us from making mistakes.
This short article says it more eloquently than I could what the responsibilities of the government are on a basic level. Though there are reasonable limitations that should be placed on government.
On the topic of abortion, my main gripe and complaint with it is that it is considered a viable method of contraception. When in fact it's a major medical procedure with all the inherent risks of any other surgery, despite this, women's rights 'advocates' continue to promote it as a contraceptive. Teenaged girls having an abortion without parental notification is akin to having open heart surgery without parental notification, which is illegal because they are minors. I have said in the past that I would be ok with a non-invasive "abortion pill", if such a thing is possible that doesn't harm the health of the woman, that is taken after unprotected intercourse as an emergency contraception, but again it would need to be administered by a physician to protect against complications.
Lastly, committing a murder to stop a murder is never the right thing. Even to stop a dozen or a hundred or a thousand. Human life is sacred and while I might joke about killing this despot or that terrorist, it usually doesn't solve anything.