The Court seldom turns down a chance to extend rights by citing the Equal Protection Clause.
Even liberals like Alan Dershowitz have now conceded that the Court did overreach in the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision. Even Dershowitz admits that the Court should have left it up to the individual States to determine how they would resolve the issue of abortion.
We don't need another great wedge issue dividing this country for decades. Just because of five numbskulls in black robes refused to take the wisest course of action.