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“Whatever your position on abortion is, Roe v. Wade is objectively bad law built upon fetid ground.”

This is exactly what my Constitutional Law prof told us (in 1983). He was conservative and had hoped for an appointment to the federal bench (though he never got one), but made it clear why - in objective terms - that Roe was built on a house of cards. He said that repeated testing of narrow points would build toward a repeal at some point. He did emphasize, for my liberal classmates, that as an attorney and as a judge you have to completely separate your legal analysis of a case or of the Constitutionality of a law from your own personal beliefs.

He also emphasized that the simplest way for those in favor of abortion to make it legal nationwide was without Roe, by having a law passed by Congress and signed by the President. Needless to say, the libs didn’t like this one bit - even then, they were hypocritical bastards, loving “democracy” when it produced the results that they liked, hating it when it failed to do so.

I always come back to what King Solomon said some 3,000 years ago: “There’s nothing new under the Sun.” Human nature does not change, and the Leftists (of whatever label, flying whatever flag, etc.) are simply those who wish to enslave as many other people as possible, by any means possible. That accounts for their unashamed and in-your-face hypocrisy, both in my classroom in 1983 and now.

I knew a lawyer many years ago who had worked for the ACLU. He resigned and went into private practice because he was so disgusted with their involvement in Roe. He could go on a long tirade as to why it was horrible ‘law’ - and that there was practically no LAW argued in it.