Now that it has become a religious council whose role is to restrain the US citizenry using Catholic/ Evangelical dogma, will a majority of Americans continue to treat it as capable of resolving the issues of freedom which the US faces?
This all feels a little bit like Dredd Scott, when SCOTUS disastrously failed to deliver a useful verdict over slavery. And so the issue went towards violence.
The trouble with the achingly slow politics in the US, whose processes are defined by the US Constitution and the arcane rules of the senate, is that it cannot itself resolve thorny issues of this type. And so it pushes final decision-making towards an undemocratic entity. SCOTUS ought to know that it doesn't have the standing to make political decisions. But apparently, it does not.
So you have a kind of failed traffic system in which political decisions are sent to the wrong place and the wrong body is forced to decide matters which ought to be decided democratically. Roe itself should not have been the thing that decided abortion rights in the US. That was the job of politicians.
Why was the status quo on abortion decided by case law? Why was it not already on the statute books? Because the way the constitution operates through congress means ideas cannot easily evolve there.
The issue isn't only abortion. It's the way US politics works.
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