The pending removal of a woman’s right to choose by the current Supreme Court does not only dismiss stare decisis, it also dismisses scientific evidence. Only some forms of religious doctrine (Roman Catholicism, in particular, the church I left 45 years ago...which 6 sitting justices were indoctrinated with and 5 continue to bend a knee to the operation, though I doubt Sotomayor has been particularly poisoned with the dogma, and Coney-Barret subscribing to a more conservative Catholic op than the mainstream) brings one to believe that termination of pregnancy kills, rather than the acceptance of factual reality that a mass of differentiating cells is being eliminated. If a pregnancy has been carried long enough that a genuinely viable human is the product of an attempted termination, every effort to support that viable life is mandated by law, in the extraordinarily rare circumstances in which that occurs. To suggest otherwise is a sheer flight of fancy in a rational world. One cannot logically draw a conclusion that killing an independently viable creature is involved with abortion; one might feel that or believe such nonsense, but cannot employ a rational intellect to arrive in that corner.
In these religious minds, “life” begins at conception — the ingredients have been stirred together in the pot. Of course, that makes no sense, either. Logical extrapolation makes evident that the ingredients of life are contained in every human spermatozoa and ova and with this logical extension, ought find protection by law from being “killed” at the owning man or woman’s discretion.
There is no separation of Church and State, if the right to choose is removed based on the religious philosophy of the majority - there is no other basis for such a decision allowing the government to dictate how a woman will operate her reproductive system.
And that means that the nasty boys of Monty Python were correct all those years ago, singing their song.