No matter how you feel about abortion, if you’re intelligent and honest you should agree that Roe was a flagrantly terrible decision. It located a “right to abortion,” which is not in the Constitution, within the “right to privacy,” which is also not in the Constitution.
Even if the Constitution did mention the right to privacy, no objective reading of “right to privacy” could include abortion. The whole objection to abortion is how it affects the other person, the unborn child.
To call abortion a “private” decision is to assume that the other person doesn’t count or doesn’t exist, which begs the question. You have to prove that first. Then you can talk about privacy. These are questions that the Constitution doesn’t address and doesn’t intend to address
So even if you support abortion, you must realize that it is ludicrous to suggest that Constitution intended to codify abortion as a private issue and protect it as such, even though it nowhere mentions either word.
You can claim (wrongly) that the Constitution SHOULD have protected abortion or that its Framer WOULD have done so had they been as enlightened as you. Well okay, then amend the document. Or pass a law. But don’t pretend it says something on the basis that it should have said it.
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