plenty of complex and thorny moral issues, not just abortion, many others. and it has worked well and that s why this has alwaysst been a stable country because we get to rule ourselves, roe versus wade took that right away in a single nineteen seventy three decision ,the high court banned democracy from the debate over abortion. justices prohibited the states from enactinggro abortion restrictions that their own citizens strongly preferredir o that meant that going forward alabama would be required to have the same abortional laws as massachusetts. now some people love this . of course people of massachusetts looked at people in alabama hatede, but there was nothing anybody could do about it because supreme court had cut voters out of the equationn and as a result of that , the issue of abortion was never resolved. things are not resolved by fiat. they re only resolved by consent. that s a core idea in democracyy and it s true . so as a result of this short