In abortion case, Roberts does what no liberal Justice would do on a hot-button social-issue case: accept a wrongly decided precedent as binding. What's mine is mine, what's yours is negotiable.
It junked the trimester framework, added a newly-minted "undue burden" standard, and tried to recenter the theoretical grounding in the Due Process clause instead of "emanations and prenumbras" of unrelated rights.
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It also preserved the core of Roe—as you know. If it had not, opponents of abortion rights like yourself would not have been so disappointed, if not enraged, by the decision.
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I just find it odd that you're not familiar with the point about how completely it overhauled Roe in the name of stare decisis. It's a central point of Scalia's famous dissent.
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