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“In other words, the Court should not properly allow a past bad decision to stand. Indeed, if stare decisis were concrete, we’d still have Plessy v Ferguson on the books, and Brown v Board of Education would have deferred to Plessy.

We can speculate why the Democrats didn’t codify Roe in its 49 years of existence.

I surmise they didn't want some of their swing or red state members to go on record as supporting abortion-on-demand.

I surmise that they knew they had some anti-abortion Senators and Representatives that could not be relied on to vote en bloc.

I surmise they preferred a Sword of Damocles hang over Roe in perpetuity, so that they could agitate their base to keep voting Democrat despite countless other Party failings.”

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