At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.
The opinion also added these astonishingly arrogant remarks:
Where, in the performance of its judicial duties, the Court decides a case in such a way as to resolve the sort of intensely divisive controversy reflected in Roe and those rare, comparable cases, its decision has a dimension that the resolution of the normal case does not carry. It is the dimension present whenever the Court’s interpretation of the Constitution calls the contending sides of a national controversy to end their national division by accepting a common mandate rooted in the Constitution.
This gaseous irrational nonsense has had a toxic effect on the law. It empowers judges to make up rights as they go along, untethered to any identifiably meaning in the actual Constitution, as it has been understood throughout our nation's history. It eliminates the need for legal reasoning, and substitutes the policy whims of judges. It hands ultimate power into the hands of judges, who were never imagined by the Founders of our nation to have such a role in government. It eliminates self-rule, and substitutes a judicial oligarchy.
It led most recently to the Court's lawless decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, in which our Black-Robed Platonic Guardian Rulers on the Court redefined marriage at the stroke of a pen to mean something that it never has meant, and never could mean. Who knows where it will lead next -- "gender rights", assisted suicide, polygamy? Nobody knows, because reason no longer rules in our courts.
[W]hen a strict interpretation of the Constitution, according to the fixed rules which govern the interpretation of laws, is abandoned, and the theoretical opinions of individuals are allowed to control its meaning, we have no longer a Constitution; we are under the government of individual men, who for the time being have power to declare what the Constitution is, according to their own views of what it ought to mean.
That, too, is the legacy of Roe v. Wade. So as we mourn today the pernicious effects of Roe on human lives, let's also keep in mind its devastating impact on the rule of law and reason, as witnessed in our out-of-control courts.