Most of the GOP presidential contenders appeared at the annual National Right to Life convention today, to assure the religious fundamentalist base that the best way to create jobs is to make sure women don’t have the right to choose an abortion.

Magical thinking writ large, hyped by the highest profile right wing politicians: GOP candidates talk abortion.

All the candidates agreed life begins at conception and punctuated their point by citing the Declaration of Independence, which states all men “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Several speeches were also laced with faith-based remarks. Herman Cain, former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, warned the country was in a “moral crisis” and said an increasingly secular culture was to blame for the legalization of abortion.

“As believers, most of us, we’ve got to fight back strongly with our voices and our votes,” Cain said.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum underscored abortion as a rights issue, saying the government was ignoring the rights of the unborn and used the opportunity to tie in “Obamacare” as evidence the president was “fixated on accumulating power in DC.”

Rep. Ron Paul from Texas, a former obstetrician who says he’s delivered more than 4,000 babies, said he would introduce legislation called “We the People Act,” which would shift abortion laws from the federal level to the states.

“We could prevent millions of abortions by allowing states to legislate,” Paul said, via Skype.

The libertarian-leaning congressman said the issue of life and abortion is “probably the most important issue of our age” and that “liberty is secondary to life.”