I keep hearing this ridiculous argument.
Hey, you're the one making it. Regardless of how unconstitutional Roe is, we need to keep it because it has been in place for 40 years. Just like segregation.
Brown v. Board of Education clarified a right extended to black Americans by the 14th Amendment (and, of course, to the rest of us).
That same amendment was in effect in 1896 when Plessy v. Ferguson declared segregation 'constitutional'.
It wasn't the taking of a right away - a right hitherto deemed guaranteed by the Constitution.
Plessy was. Plessy is the complement to Roe. And the decision that overturns Roe will be the complement of Brown.
Those who want prohibition (hat-tip to Luis; I like how he described this particularly coercive proclivity of many pro-lifers) want to remove a right hitherto deemed guaranteed by the Constitution (and certainly relied on by the affected citizens for their entire adult lives).
What right would that be? And where in the Constitution can I find it? Because your blatant pro-life bigotry shows me that you do not see this as a Constitutional issue at all.
How can you compare the clarification of a right with the denial of a right?
I'm not. You're the one putting up that strawman.
Roe = Plessy. In 1954, segregationist argued that Plessy was settled law - that after 58 years, it would be wrong to take segregation away, despite what the Constitution said. Today, you make the exact same argument for abortion.
Hell, I'd be likely to support laws that clarify, but do not deny, the abortion right.
Roe denies you that right.
It's not that abortion isn't wrong - it is.
The rights and wrongs of abortion are completely irrelevant to the constitutionality of Roe. The fact that you keep injecting the moral argument is an admission that you do not have a legal leg to stand on.
Out of curiousity - if you were on the SCOTUS in 1954, how would you have voted on Brown v. Board?
The same way that Justice Harlan voted in 1896.
But in the view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution in color-blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.
Justice John Marshall Harlan - Dissenting opinion, Plessy v. Ferguson