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The period creates the impression that the list of self-evident truths ends with the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she says.

No, you idjit, it doesn't. Unless you happen to be a female employee of The New York Times who most likely makes less than her male counterpart. In fact, it creates the reality that the list is just the starting point.

The line in question is prefaced with: "That among these are....

Here. Read it for yourself...

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.

The key word there is "among". That does not imply finality or finiteness. It denotes a starting point.

The fact that the next sentence begins with "That" serves to continue the thought that "to secure these rights governments are instituted among men" is another self-evident truth. Being "self-evident", by definition, means the point does not need to be tortured or massaged by some freedom-hating Libtard who writes for a newspaper that is being read by fewer and fewer people.