Not really an accurate summary of history. Abortion has been illegal, and almost universally considered immoral, in the US throughout our history. And in western civilization long before that.
The dam began to break in a few states not long before Roe v. Wade, yes. But it was part of the same leftist revolutionary movement, expressed earlier in Griswold v. Connecticut, which legalized contraception—also illegal everywhere in the US until the “sexual freedom” modernizers got to work on it.
The Constitution is not silent on abortion, or neutral, any more than it is silent or neutral on marriage. It’s just that people took these things for granted for 2000 years, and then suddenly the rules were changed. No one thought that marriage had to be defined as only between a man and a woman, because that was too obvious to need saying.
The constitution protects the right of every individual to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Whether that includes the unborn is a matter of debate, but it can be argued that unborn persons are included in the word “person” in the constitution. Conservative jurists have argued the matter, and it is probably something we will have to debate in the future.
But, meantime, Roe v. Wade was clearly an unconstitution exercise of sheer power that reversed the common consensus of law and morality of centuries.
“Because I could,” clinton once said. A tyrannical SCOTUS said much the same thing, in Roe v. Wade. Because they could.
Sorry, I think I misread you, and we probably agree on most of this. I’ve been doing too much snow shoveling, I guess.