[precisionshootist]

Stare Decisis works only in theory. In actual practice it’s a menace that allows the tyranny of corrupt rulings to do harm at infinitum. It is a tool of totalitarians. Follow stare decisis long enough and you end up on the planet of the apes. We are well on our way.

[ClearCase_guy]

Roe v Wade should overturned. It was just a bad decision and should not serve as any sort of “precedent”.

If the country wants to legalize abortion “the right way”, they should create a Constitutional Amendment which either speaks specifically about abortion, or which codifies a Right to Privacy that would legitimately lead to the legalization of abortion.

I would not support it, and I don’t think the country would ratify it. But that’s kind of the point.

Throw Roe v Wade out and walk the walk you’re supposed to walk — the proper pathway to walk down is the Amendment process.

[Amendment10]

"In actual practice it’s a menace that allows the tyranny of corrupt rulings to do harm at infinitum."

I agree with your whole post 100%.

• "The Constitution on this hypothesis is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.” —Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1819.

• "Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure." —Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823."

• "The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary, as distinguished from technical, meaning; where the intention is clear, there is no room for construction and no excuse for interpolation or addition [emphasis added].” —United States v. Sprague, 1931.