Last month was the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, surely one of the most divisive Supreme Court decisions of our time. We do not propose to enter into the debate over abortion, but we would like to share with our readers a few sentences from “The Mother of All Rights,” Meghan Cox Gurdon’s reflection on Roe v. Wade in the January 21 issue of The Wall Street Journal. Ms. Gurdon begins by recalling the scene in “Schindler’s List” where the actual survivors that Oskar Schindler saved, along with their children and grandchildren, line up to place stones on Schindler’s grave. “What makes the scene so powerful,” Ms. Gurdon writes, “is not just the surprising number of progeny already produced by the Holocaust escapees, but the staggering number of men, women and children who aren’t there, who never had a chance of life because the Nazis gassed those who would have been their par ...

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