The Rule of Law Life Act affirms the Ninth Amendment and the common law, which in turn recognizes the right to life.

WHEREAS, the General Assembly heard un-rebutted testimony that the ninth amendment reserves to the people and states the power to specify and secure common law rights, which are those rights that Americans enjoy by virtue of ancient customary law and natural law; among these ancient rights is the right to life, which in the common law is known as an “absolute right”; the right to life is enjoyed by all natural persons, which includes unborn human beings, the aged and infirm; and the fourteenth amendment did not abrogate the powers of the people and states reserved by the ninth amendment; and…

WHEREAS, Blackstone said that at common law the absolute rights of individuals “may be reduced to three principal or primary articles; the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty, and the right of private property”; and

WHEREAS, Blackstone said, “The right of personal security consists in a person’s legal and uninterrupted enjoyment of his life, his limbs, his body, his health, and his reputation”; and

WHEREAS, based on the common law as explicated in Blackstone’s Commentaries, the framers of the U.S. Constitution understood the word “life” as being “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”; and

WHEREAS, Blackstone said “an infant in ventre sa mere,” or in the mother’s womb, is supposed in law to be born for many purposes. It is capable of having a legacy, or a surrender of a copyhold estate, made to it. It may have a guardian assigned to it; and it is enabled to have an estate limited to its use, and to take afterwards by such limitation, as if it were then actually born”; and

WHEREAS, Blackstone said, “This natural life, being, as was before observed, the immediate donation of the great Creator, cannot legally be disposed of or destroyed by any individual, neither by the person himself, nor by any other of his fellow-creatures, merely upon their own authority”