Leaked Supreme Court Decision signals majority set to overturn Roe v. Wade

[Angrboda]

Well, that's the thing.  The right views these issues as an existential crisis, kill or be killed, while the left does not, or at least has not in the past.

Is it not the left that seeks to preserve killing as a legally availabe remedy to the inconvenient existence of some living organisms?

Those who have read the draft will know that the express intent of the opinion is to democratize the issue by eliminating its dependence on the opinion of 9 unelected officials and return it to elected legislative bodies. In this particular case, it is difficult to argue that conservatives are the ones relying on antidemocratic means to secure their political goals.

I was speaking more generally about the right abandoning all but power as a goal in politics. Abortion wasn't an issue with Christians or the right before some evangelical leaders realized that it could function as a wedge issue to drive voters to conservatism. It is that history which led us to here. Regarding whether Roe vs. Wade was anti-democratic or not requires begging the question of whether outlawing abortion in the first two trimesters is unconstitutional. You don't get to assume that as a given. Either it is or it isn't. It is not anti-democratic to abide by the method of resolving such questions enshrined in the constitution without arguing that the constitution itself is anti-democratic, which it appears that you are doing. The federal government reserves certain powers to itself, including determining whether something is constitutional or not. All other powers are reserved to the states. So, no, Roe v. Wade wasn't anti-democratic. Quite the opposite.

Nice rhetoric, though.