It is widely, even if not unanimously, accepted that the quality of
the legal and constitutional reasoning in Roe v. Wade is wretchedly
bad. Even many supporters of the result of the decision, such as
Laurence Tribe, the late John Hart Ely and Edward Lazarus (Lazarus was Blackmun's clerk at the time) say the constitutional reasoning behind Blackmun's decision was atrocious.
So, it's one thing to overturn an atrociously reasoned decision, but
to do it by an *equally* atrociously reasoned decision, as Alito's
clearly is, is not an improvement. Alito's central claim — that
something requires express mention in the Constitution in order to be
the subject of a right — is complete bullshit.
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