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You seem to misunderstand American culture. Universal or "human" rights are already elaborated or more less in our Dec. of Ind. and our Constitution. We are attached to the state system because people have differing views on what civil rights people are entitled to. Abortion isn't a universal right, people who claim it is are idiots. It is a civil right and the SCOTUS inadvertently admits so with Roe vs. Wade by having to link abortion with privacy of all things in order to ensure it's legality. Reading between the lines, its obvious the decision was based off of pragmatism, and not any real legal backing.
I'm not going to disagree with you on the nature of Roe vs Wade, but I would argue that there is no fundamental difference between universal and civil rights, other than what we deem it is appropriate for our governments to interfere in.