It amuses me to hear folks who usually decry "judicial activism" insist the Supreme Court deny the legal rights of 150 million American women. Whatever one may think of the original Roe decision, it is one thing to recognize new rights, and quite another to take rights away.
A woman's right to decide for herself whether to bear a child has been the law of the land for three generations of American women. What @Bill Cipher is simply saying is that SCOTUS is not the one to put that genie back in the bottle. If an established right is to be no longer protected by the Constitution, it must be done by the peoples' elected representatives, by means of a Constitutional amendment. But that's not going to happen, because the people generally support a middle ground regarding abortion. Safe, legal and rare.
It almost amuses me to hear people babble about the rights of 150 million American women and ignore the rights of the 30 million very young ladies butchered at the alleged behest of the 150 million.
What other groups can we eliminate for the crime of inconvenience? All we need is a 5:1 ratio to make it perfectly legal?
For instance, could we just pop Cadillac drivers off the highway and squash them (with their vehicles)? After all, the ratio of chevys to caddys should be about right...
How about people who wear brown dress shoes? They're a minority.
The Constitution exists, in part to protect the Rights of those who are helpless, in the minority, who lack the means to defend themselves against the mob and the powerful. Yet this abortion of jurisprudence puts the most helpless among us, those who have no voice directly in the cross hairs.
It's wrong, on so many levels, and yet you continue to babble about it as if it was (a) right.
You remind me of the exact reason I chose not to become a lawyer.