Bret Stephens: Overturning Roe v. Wade

I practiced law for 40 years. The only aspect of this letter Idisagree withis that Roe was not well d3cided. It is in fact a model for Consitutional Legal Accuracy, because it acknolwedges the truth of the concept that the Conistution doesnot pretend to be the originof all law, but recognizes that we already posssess rights that are understood in the ordinary course of living in society that are protected without enumeration. Privacy is most certainly one of them. And there is a solid history of precedence for that. The 10 Amendment rectties that fact. Roe was well-founded!

I see Dansea4 has adopted the liberal talking points that the world will now come to an end. When the extremists on the left put together the list of woes that this decision will visit upon us, they should have left out a ban on inter-racial marriages. The extremists forgot that justice Thomas is married to a white woman. But hey, the mid-terms are coming and they can't run on Joe Biden's record of sky high inflation.

Excellent article! Just think of all the “lovely” things the MAGA crowd will then try to outlaw….same sex marriage, mixed race marriage, all LGBTQ rights, all Civil Rights, a woman’s right to vote, etc. etc. etc. time for tye Court to be expanded!

Roe v Wade should have never been upheld by any conservative standard of jurisprudence. No matter how hard you try and rationalize it, it was sloppily contorted and politically motivated. To be clear and concise, there is no Constitutional Law that makes abortion a right, none. Just because it was allowed to stand for 50 years doesn't make it right. We have more than enough examples to back that up, starting with slavery. Besides, if the SCOTUS does what it should do, to correct this monstrosity of jurisprudence, it won't make abortion illegal. So let's stop lying about that immediately. It simply returns the issue back to the States, where it belongs. You can almost be guaranteed an unrestricted abortion in several States already, and many others allow “restricted” [within 8-16 weeks, or heartbeat] abortions.

Otherwise, if you want it to be a Constitutional Right than you need to go through the process of making it so. Not “short-cutting” the process by legislating from the bench.

Remember Safe, Legal, and Rare? That is what a majority of Americans think.