I agree with you, Cicero. Roe v Wade is reprehensible. I am a woman who grew up in the 70's. Back then, they were all talking about a 'blob of cells', I was young and naive and bought into it. There was a time that I was 'pro-choice' (for the record, I now think 'pro-choice' is the same as 'pro-abortion'), I am now pro-life. Wisdom, technology and faith has changed my views.
I'm glad to hear it. There was indeed a lot of bad science as well as bad morality in what people were told back then.
There are two reasons that Roe v. Wade is reprehensible. The first is of most concern to those who value human life: It legalized abortion and led to the deaths of more than 40 million unborn children.
The second should be of concern even to pro-abortion libertarians. It broke the Constitution by reading into it things that simply weren't there, made personal opinion into law, legislated arbitrarily from the bench. Even if some conservatives think that abortion is a good idea, they should not want to see it proclaimed by nine unelected justices. If abortion is a good idea, then it should have been put into place by the actions of state legislatures.
Of course, I think abortion is a terrible idea. It's the taking of innocent human lives. What I'm saying, however, is that Roe v. Wade was a terrible decision from just about any conservative point of view, and that it ought to be opposed for both these reasons.