Our Early American Forparents Were Right To Life

The U.S. Declaration of Independence is the founding document of the United States and justifies even the use of armed rebellion against a corrupt government that does not respect the right to life of created human beings as can be seen from the following cite.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security

The right to life that the people of colonial America were so willing to fight and die for was one that unborn children were credited with having according to the law of that time period as you can see from this commentary on the laws of England of that period.

Life is the immediate gift of God, a right inherent by nature in every individual; and it begins in contemplation of law as soon as an infant is able to stir in the mother's womb

So our colonial and early American forbearers are pro-life in that they held to the belief that children had the right to life simply because they were human beings and alive. It is the same basic theory that caused them to say the following in the Declaration of Independence .

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

About the Right to Liberty an aspect of what is the Right to Choice, John Locke wrote the following in his Second Treatise On Civil Government.

But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence; though man in that state have an uncontrollable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himself, or so much as any creature in his possession, but where some nobler use than its bare preservation
calls for it.

So obviously according to the law at the time the Declaration of Independency, which was based on their knowledge of natural science, the right to choose was not considered sufficient in itself to deprive a owned animal or infant of life. This is the same Declaration of Independence that Abraham Lincoln accused the Supreme Court Justices of being tyrants when the later stated it did not apply to slaves, that Elizabeth Cady Stanton based the Declaration of Sentiments on, and that Martin Luther King, Junior declared promised blacks equal rights.

The U.S. Constitution itself makes consideration for rights that are not enumerated within itself and their importance with these words.

Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

In Conclusion I have shown what is clearly obvious to anyone whom studies law and the history behind it. That being that children within their mother’s womb had their right to life protected by law at the time the Constitution was written and that right was retained for them by the people when the Ninth Amendment was made law. So it is obvious that that right can not constitutionally be denied them even in the effort to protect the his or her mother’s right of privacy. Even knowing that our country has fallen from the high level of virtue for which it stived, it is my hope and desire that the United States changes our ways and once more become true patriots and claim the Spirit for life and freedom that will allow us to stand against the tyranny of legal murder through abortion.