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Originally Posted by biker1
There is a possibility that the decision the SC is going to reach is that it is not a constitutionally (Federal) mandated right and as such the people of each state will get to decide the issue by who they elect at the state level. I don’t think most people understand that - certainly not the talking heads on most opinion shows. The SC is being asked to render a legal argument and Roe has apparently been on questionable legal grounds. Kicking it back to the states to decide makes a lot of sense. No decision has been reached yet.
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It's not about any legal grounds. Five current justices are arguing that abortion rights aren't in the Constitution. The Constitutional grounds for Roe are that a woman’s right to an abortion is implicit in the right to privacy protected under the 14th Amendment. If you say that's not so, then you are saying that there are no rights guaranteed by SCOTIS in the past under the right to privacy, including using contraceptives, interracial marriages, and much more.