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To have a human right there has to be, at minimum, a creature called human, and it must have at least one commonality shared among all members of the group to make it a kind. There is a physical creature that is considered to be part of a category or class of things called human. This class is composed of creatures with a wide range of physical attributes. The question is if there is sufficient reason to give all of its members a common or class identity. If a commonality cannot be established throughout the kind, then no right can be affixed to the entity. It is common to look at mankind as a physical creature. If we are a physical creature, we are an animal. But animals do not have rights other than those given to them by humans. To give humans a human right requires something higher than human. Unless rights are derived from nature. If there is a right not natural, the right is not attached to our physical being. Either way, human rights are not a viable concept. The right cannot be attached simply to an accident of birth.  The idea of a human rights must be abandoned for a more sophisticated understanding of what rights are and to whom they pertain.