> The question before the court in Roe v. Wade was not “Would the world be better if abortion were legal?” The question was, “Does the US Constitution prohibit

> The question before the court in Roe v. Wade was not “Would the world be better if abortion were legal?” The question was, “Does the US Constitution prohibit states from making abortion illegal?” This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem that gives way to much credit to the court. The question isn't about legality or the constitution it's about politics and power. The conservative legal movement has spent decades working to take away the right of women to choose. They've been explicit about this. McConnell stacked the court by refusing to even hear from Garland then jamming in Barrett at the last moment. The reason Roe vs Wade is being overturned isn't because it is flawed but because they finally got not just a conservative majority but an extremely conservative supreme court majority A lot of people claimed they didn't really mean it when they said they wanted to ban abortion and that they were just taking advantage of socially conservatives for the votes but when the politicians/judge politicans are themselves socially conservative why would you think they don't believe in it? And now we have the unsurprising result. I wish we wouldn't dress it up in irrelevant theoretical conversations about what the constitution says