I thought the Democrats were the pro-choice party of bodily autonomy? That is, I suppose, unless you're talking about Covid-19, then of course your body is is yours as long as you agree to do what the government says is in the public interest.

I find these reactions to legislating from the bench amusing. It was in fact Democrats and social liberals who realized that they could force their unpalatable legislative agendas on the people through the courts in the 1960s - and subsequently did so for the last 60 years.

It has only been in the last 20 years or so that conservatives and Republicans have started using the same tactic - to mixed results, mostly. Now that conservatives are taking a page out of the liberal playbook and trying to legislate through the courts, there is righteous liberal indignation. But when liberals were doing it, it was just and proper and right.

A rollback of Planned Parenthood v. Casey (or Roe, for that matter) wouldn't be denying women a fundamental right, it would be affirming no such right ever existed in the Constitution (which of course, it did not). Modern day liberal justices act like Howard Carter, discovering "rights" all over the Constitution like Carter found King Tut's tomb. The Constitution, however, doesn't work that way. Rights not enumerated can be granted and guaranteed, but by the legislature, not the Constitution. The problem is liberals realize that, in many states, their opinions are in the minority. So because the legislatures would never grant them the rights they believe they should have, they try to find those rights in the text of the constitution, in order to force unpalatable legislative views on an unwanting populous.

At the end of the day, the reason so many states have been attempting to restrict access to abortion is because the people living in those states don't believe that abortion is right or is a right. The people should be the ones to decide whether it is or is not legal, whether it is or is not a right.

Hopefully the courts put an end to this circus by doing the right thing: overturning blatantly unconstitutional precedent (for all of you about to scream about stare decisis, don't forget that rigid adherence to stare decisis would have never led to civil rights) and allowing the people to decide for themselves.