[epow]

Wouldn't it take a constitutional amendment to change this now?

No, another USSC decison can overturn Roe. If stare decisis is carved in stone we would still be living under the Dredd Scott decision.

A decision that flies in the face of hundreds, if not thousands, of years of civilized western law and which has NO basis AT ALL in the text of the Constitution should and must be overturned.

[j831526]

Right, the SC can reverse the decision. My assumption was that after refusing to review the original decision and then reaffirming it 20 years later it would be an unusual act of judicial activism to reverse the decision now.

The court certainly can do this, but would a truly conservative judge who accepted the concept of judicial restraint really vote this way?