Commentary “Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We … will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the [last] generation.” —Abraham Lincoln Throughout the course of human history, there have been those identifiable inflection points within the human family that recalibrated the trajectory of the entire world. Certainly, America’s Declaration of Independence was one of those clarion inflection points. Thomas Jefferson articulated the purpose of it all when he said, “The care of human life and its happiness, and not its destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” In the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court made the often overlooked statement in which it refused to recognize the self-evident humanity of the preborn human child: …