Whereas the Declaration of Independence announces the self-evident truth that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights ; Whereas the first of those unalienable rights is the right to life; Whereas modern science has illuminated our understanding of the humanity of unborn life; Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States committed a grave error in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) (referred to in this preamble as Roe), by inventing a constitutional right to abortion, thereby denying a class of innocent people their right to life; Whereas more than 63,000,000 unborn lives were lost to abortion under Roe; Whereas, on June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 142 S. Ct. 2228 (2022) (referred to in this preamble as Dobbs), corrected the grave error committed in Roe, by holding that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion and that Roe and Casey must be overruled, and the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives ; Whereas many States have taken historic steps to protect unborn life since the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in Dobbs; and Whereas many millions of people in the United States continue to press to protect unborn life and strengthen support for families charged with protecting that life: Now, therefore, be it