Your statement is not altogether true.
Of course, as constitutional law it was a disaster. But never once did the Supreme Court declare abortion itself to be a Constitutional right.
What SCOTUS said was:
"We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins . . . the judiciary at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer."
Man's knowledge has come a long way baby!
8 week unborn child
They continued:
"If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment."
The Life at Conception Act Follows the High Court's Instructions To Define When Life Begins.
Now the time to grovel before the Supreme Court is over.
Working from what the Supreme Court ruled in Roe, pro-life lawmakers can pass a Life at Conception Act and end abortion by using the Constitution instead of amending it.
A Life at Conception Act changes the focus of the abortion debate.
It takes the Supreme Court out of the equation and places responsibility squarely on the shoulders of the elected representatives who, unlike life term judges, must respond to grass-roots pressure.
OK, so why hasn't this been done? Republicans had strong majorities fairly recently. If not then then when? In my political judgement, The SC is the key, not Congress.