Works for me.
In fact, that's the only rational way to settle those kinds of issues, including abortion, school bussing, drug laws, highway speed limits, and a number of other things.
In colonial days pols had no qualms about voting on such issues and there was a reason for that. The typical politician was a fifth or sixth son of a plantation owner and when he drew the short straw it was his turn to spend the summer in the state house repping the interests of his old man. The guy didn't even want to be there; he wanted to be back on the plantation chasing girls and figured with any luck it was somebody elses turn next year. Voting on a social issue was simply part of a civil obligation.
Our present professional politicians hate those kinds of issues and fear them. ANY vote on such an issue is going to alienate 45% of the guy's constituents, and then any sort of a clumsy act after that which alienates another 5.1 percent and the guy's out the door. Naturally he wants to shunt such decisions off to professional judges who behave like satraps and have no accountability to the people at all.
That's the entire reason for the present all-out war on supreme court positions and the accompanying insanity. The only rational way to settle such issues is via plebescite votes as you suggest.
BRAVO!
Sorry, it doesn't work for me... nor should it work for any conservative. This nation is NOT a democracy... it is a Constitutional Republic.
As much as I am opposed to the Roe V. Wade decision, a referendum to decide the issue would open to door to other referenda ... and law passed without the give and take of argument and debate that considers the needs and desires of the minority, which would be lost in a direct democracy, is bad law.
Let's not throw out the Constitution merely because some black robed usurpers have taken on the powers of the legislature from the Judicial bench. Let us instead ride such tyrants out of town on a rail, after thouroughly tarring and feathering them! Anti-constitutional rulings such as Roe v. Wade should have been ignored by the two other branches of government... as the Constitution intended.