“It’s conventional wisdom to say that the court’s decision in Roe caused the polarization over abortion,” said Reva Siegel, a law professor at Yale. “But the court did not cause that polarization. It was the Republican Party’s quest for voters — political party competition — that savaged Roe. Once the attack on Roe was underway, the defense needed to be full tilt in politics as well as in the courts — and in all political arenas, state, local and federal. Because over time the attack on Roe has become more than an attack on abortion; it has become an attack on democracy.”
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The court forced every state in the union to upend all of it's own abortion laws and follow a trimester system that was invented by SCOTUS themselves. Most of those states banned all abortions because the people in those states considered it to be absolutely morally abhorrent.
In 1973, you would have been more likely to pass a constitutional amendment banning abortion, rather than one that would legalize it. The difference is that in the 1970's, Leftist ideological capture of the institutions was absolutely total, and there's a lot of similarities to what we have today. Therefore, the Warren court (like with most things) thought they could just do whatever and get away with it without any rebuke.
It is from the 50 years of blowback against that decision that lead to it's repeal. This was not the desperate scheming of the Republican Party to figure out how to destroy it. It was from the genuine outrage of millions of people bludgeoning the Republican party into responding to one of the most obviously bad decisions that SCOTUS ever made and it took a generation to undo.
I don't even think you should ban abortions, and 50 years of blowback is the only legitimate way to look at the abortion issue. Americans never wanted abortion legalized. They got it handed to them anyway, then they started to have to pay for it, then they were told that they should allow it to be done minutes before birth, then they were told it could be done after the kid was born, then they were told that bodily autonomy was a vast right-wing conspiracy that only anti-vaxxers thought was real.
So, after the Leftist domination of the 1970's was met with the blowback of the Reagan Revolution, he appointed the man who just undid Roe. If you recall, the current "President" of the US called him a rapist; in what that very justice called a "high-tech lynching for uppity blacks that dare to think for themselves."
You Leftists did this to yourselves.